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MODIS/Aqua Geolocation Fields 5-Min L1A Swath 1km

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

The MODIS/Aqua Geolocation Fields 5-Min L1A Swath 1km are calculated for each 1 km MODIS Instantaneous Field of Views (IFOV) for all orbits daily (in Collection 6 and later, information is provided to calculate 500m geolocation fields). The locations and ancillary information corresponds to the intersection of the centers of each IFOV from 10 detectors in an ideal 1 km band on the Earth's surface. A digital terrain model is used to model the Earth's surface. The main inputs are the spacecraft attitude and orbit, the instrument telemetry and the digital elevation model. The geolocation fields include geodetic Latitude, Longitude, surface height above geoid, solar zenith and azimuth angles, satellite zenith and azimuth angles, and a land/sea mask for each 1 km sample. Additional information is included in the header to enable the calculation of the approximate location of the center of the detectors of any of the 36 MODIS bands. This product is used as input by a large number of subsequent MODIS products, particularly the products produced by the Land team. The short name for this product is MYD03. Each file is roughly 30 MB in size, and the total data volume is approximately 8 GB/day. See the MODIS Science Team homepage for more data set information: https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS;NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/LAADS
Maintainer
Identifier 10.5067/MODIS/MYD03.061
Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 5104e9ac-191a-4e43-bbc5-367da73aa147
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Old Spatial {"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90},"CARTESIAN"
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 29816d7cf3555eae568617abf3b1b549cd94cd2daa2fb7a00cad7709d44686ff
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2002-07-03/2026-03-30

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