I am working with a time series of MODIS LST data on a Windows platform and would like some good "handbook" information on how best to work with this data. Can anyone suggest manuals, chapters, articles or listservs that address issues that arise while working with MODIS data?
Hi Alisa, I have worked with MODIS ET data, not LST, but
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/pdf/MOD_11.pdf
and
http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/modis/LstUsrGuide/usrguide_intro.html
are places with some initial info..
Hi Alisa,
I think it is better to pin point the issues and search for their solutions specifically rather than doing a review of all issues. So, what issues do you have?
Thanks Amartya and Trung. I'm just trying to develop a workflow now for analyzing the daily LSD. Don't really have any issues yet per se since I"m in the pre-analysis stage-- trying to identify the steps in the process. I was hoping to read up on general concerns and problems that arise regarding reprojection, clipping and averaging multiple (thousands) of MODIS tiles in a time series. Trying to learn from the experience of others and avoid wasting a lot of time and effort on unnecessary computation. Thus the reason for my question asking about a list serve or some other community forum.
Hi Alisa,You can try R software, there are MODISTools , rts, raster, sp, rgdal and other packages can be used to process time series MODIS data. http://r-gis.net/ also provide a script to download and process the MODIS product.
For the automated download of MODIS data, you may check pyModis which is a Free and Open Source Python based library to work with MODIS data (http://www.pymodis.org/). It greatly simplifies the download and processing of MODIS time series. In the near future pyModis will be updated again to run even faster.
Then you can use the downloaded and preprocessed MODIS data easily in "any" GIS.
http://www.pymodis.org/
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