N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Description
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) MCD43A3 Version 6.1 Albedo Model dataset is produced daily using 16 days of Terra and Aqua MODIS data at 500 meter (m) resolution. Data are temporally weighted to the ninth day of the 16 day which is reflected in the Julian date in the file name.
Users are urged to use the band specific quality flags to isolate the highest quality full inversion results for their own science applications as described in the User Guide.
The MCD43A3 provides black-sky albedo (directional hemispherical reflectance) and white-sky albedo (bihemispherical reflectance) data at local solar noon for MODIS bands 1 through 7 and the visible, near infrared (NIR), and shortwave bands. Along with the albedo layers are the simplified mandatory quality layers for each of the 10 bands. Essential quality information provided in the corresponding MCD43A2 data file should be consulted when using this product.
Known Issues
- For complete information about known issues please refer to the MODIS/VIIRS Land Quality Assessment website.
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File Naming Convention
The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MCD43A3) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2025212), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h11v12), the Version of the data collection (061), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2025221032740), and the Data Format (hdf).
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USER'S GUIDE
ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)
PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT
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Publications Citing This Dataset
| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greening-Induced Biophysical Impacts Lead to Earlier Spring and Autumn | Guo, Jing, Wang, Jinmei, Qiao, Yuxin, Huang, Xu, Smith, Nicholas G., Liu, Zhiyong, Zhang, Rui, Chen, Xiuzhi, Wu, Chaoyang, Penuelas, Josep, Chen, Lei | Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Characteristics, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Anisotropy, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Albedo, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux | |
| Global expansion of wildland-urban interface (WUI) and WUI fires: insights from a multiyear worldwide unified database (WUWUI) | Tang, Wenfu, He, Cenlin, Emmons, Louisa, Zhang, Junzhe | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Burned Area | |
| Generation and evaluation of energy and water fluxes from the HOLAPS | Garcia-Garcia, Almudena, Peng, Jian | Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Albedo, Anisotropy, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount | |
| Incorporating changes in land surface temperature improves BESS | Lu, Xiaoman, Guan, Kaiyu, Jiang, Chongya, Gao, Lun, Wang, Sheng, Zhang, Jiaying | Albedo, Anisotropy, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Reflectance | |
| PhySoilNet: A deep learning downscaling model for microwave satellite | Xu, Zhenheng, Sun, Hao, Gao, JinHua, Wang, Yunjia, Wu, Dan, Zhang, Tian, Xu, Huanyu | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Reducing Resolution Dependency of Dust Emission Modeling Using | Chappell, Adrian, Hennen, Mark, Schepanski, Kerstin, Dhital, Saroj, Tong, Daniel | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Characterizing the effects of atmospheric and land surface factors on | Han, Yuan, Wen, Jianguang, Xiao, Qing, Wu, Xiaodan, You, Dongqin, Tang, Yong, Gong, Baochang, Zhang, Hailong, Liu, Qinhuo, Zhu, Wenzhe, Chen, Zeqiu | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of | Kambach, Stephan, Attorre, Fabio, Axmanova, Irena, Bergamini, Ariel, Biurrun, Idoia, Bonari, Gianmaria, Carranza, Maria Laura, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Chytry, Milan, Dengler, Jurgen, Garbolino, Emmanuel, Golub, Valentin, Hickler, Thomas, Jandt, Ute, Jansen, Jan, JimenezAlfaro, Borja, Karger, Dirk Nikolaus, Lososova, Zdenka, Rasomavicius, Valerijus, Rusina, Solvita, Sieber, Petra, Stanisci, Angela, Thuiller, Wilfried, Welk, Erik, Zimmermann, Niklaus E., Bruelheide, Helge | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Compositional and structural stratification does not improve direct | Bright, Ryan M., Ramtvedt, Eirik Nsset | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Atmospheric-river-induced foehn events drain glaciers on Novaya Zemlya | Haacker, J., Wouters, B., Fettweis, X., Glissenaar, I. A., Box, J. E. | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Asymmetry in the Diurnal Variation of Land Surface Albedo and Its | Han, Yuan, Wen, Jianguang, Xiao, Qing, You, Dongqin, Meng, Lei, Wu, Shengbiao, Hao, Dalei, Tang, Yong, Chen, Xi, Liu, Qinhuo, Zhao, Congcong | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Can Topographic Effects on Solar Radiation Be Ignored: Evidence From the Tibetan Plateau | Xian, Yuyang, Wang, Tianxing, Leng, Wanchun, Letu, Husi, Shi, Jiancheng, Wang, Gaofeng, Yan, Xuewei, Yuan, Hongyin | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Analysis of environmental variables and deforestation in the amazon using logistical regression models | da Silva, Helder J. F., Goncalves, Weber A., Bezerra, Bergson G., Santos e Silva, Claudio M., de Oliveira, Cristiano P., Junior, Jorio B. Cabral, Rodrigues, Daniele T., Silva, Fabricio D. S. | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | |
| Developing an annual building volume dataset at 1-km resolution from 2001 to 2019 in China | Yan, Wenting, Wu, Jianping, Zhang, Chaoqun, Chen, Xiuzhi, Ren, Jiashun, Xiao, Zhenzhen, Liao, Ziyin, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Li, Xueyan, Su, Yongxian | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Critical Evaluation of the Spatiotemporal Behavior of UHI, through Correlation Analyses based on Multi-City Heterogeneous Dataset | Singh, Manan, Sharston, Ryan, Murtha, Timothy | Population Density, Albedo, Anisotropy, Population, Urban Areas, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | |
| Retrieval of high-resolution melting-season albedo and its implications for the Karakoram Anomaly | Xie, Fuming, Liu, Shiyin, Zhu, Yu, Qing, Xinyi, Tan, Shucheng, Gao, Yongpeng, Qi, Miaomiao, Yi, Ying, Ye, Hui, Afzal, Muhammad Mannan, Zhang, Xianhe, Zhou, Jun | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Response of Land Surface Albedo to Fire Disturbance in the Sierra Nevada Seasonal Snow Zone Over the MODIS Record | Gayler, J. M., Skiles, S. M. | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Threshold of climate extremes that impact vegetation productivity over the Tibetan Plateau | Piao, Zhenggang, Li, Xiangyi, Xu, Hao, Wang, Kai, Tang, Shuchang, Kan, Fei, Hong, Songbai | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | |
| The local cooling potential of land restoration in Africa | Ruijsch, Jessica, Teuling, Adriaan J., Duveiller, Gregory, Hutjes, Ronald W. A. | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and driving mechanism of ecosystem water | Wang, Feiyu, Xia, Jun, Zou, Lei, Zhang, Liping, Li, Xiaoyang, Yu, Jiarui | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification | |
| Using hydrological modeling and satellite observations to elucidate subsurface and surface hydrological responses to the extreme drought | Tang, Zixuan, Zhang, Yongqiang, Tian, Jing, Ma, Ning, Li, Xiaojie, Kong, Dongdong, Cao, Yijing, Yang, Xuening, Wang, Longhao, Zhang, Xuanze, Chen, Yuyin | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Unequal distributions of crowdsourced weather data in England and Wales | Brousse, Oscar, Simpson, Charles H., Poorthuis, Ate, Heaviside, Clare | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Intelligent pointing increases the fraction of cloud-free CO2 and CH4 observations from space | Nassar, Ray, MacDonald, Cameron G., Kuwahara, Bruce, Fogal, Alexander, Issa, Joshua, Girmenia, Anthony, Khan, Safwan, Sioris, Chris E. | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Net Climate Effects of Moose Browsing in Early Successional Boreal | Salisbury, John, Hu, Xiangping, Speed, James D. M., Iordan, Cristina Maria, Austrheim, Gunnar, Cherubini, Francesco | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Evaluating a global soil moisture dataset from a multitask model (GSM3 v1. 0) with potential applications for crop threats | Liu, Jiangtao, Hughes, David, Rahmani, Farshid, Lawson, Kathryn, Shen, Chaopeng | Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Vegetation Water Content, Skin Temperature, Albedo, Anisotropy, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | |
| Elucidating hidden and enduring weaknesses in dust emission modeling | Chappell, Adrian, Webb, Nicholas P., Hennen, Mark, Zender, Charles S., Ciais, Philippe, Schepanski, Kerstin, Edwards, Brandon L., Ziegler, Nancy P., Balkanski, Yves, Tong, Daniel, Leys, John F., Heidenreich, Stephan, Hynes, Robert, Fuchs, David, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Baddock, Matthew C., Lee, Jeffrey A., Kandakji, Tarek | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| How is the performance of satellite-based product suites in monitoring long-term dynamics of vegetation photosynthesis over global mountainous areas? | Xie, Xinyao, Li, Ainong | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Solar Induced Fluorescence, Albedo, Anisotropy, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux | |
| Geo-Intelligent Retrieval Framework Based on Machine Learning in the Cloud Environment: A Case Study of Soil Moisture Retrieval | Li, Zhenghao, Yuan, Qiangqiang, Zhang, Liangpei | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Is It Possible to Quantify Irrigation WaterUse by Assimilating a HighResolution Satellite Soil Moisture Product? | Jalilvand, Ehsan, AbolafiaRosenzweig, Ronnie, Tajrishy, Masoud, Kumar, Sujay V., Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza, Das, Narendra N. | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Albedo, Anisotropy, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Brightness Temperature, SIGMA NAUGHT, Surface Soil Moisture, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain | |
| Application of a satellite-retrieved sheltering parameterization (v1. 0) for dust event simulation with WRF-Chem v4. 1 | LeGrand, Sandra L., Letcher, Theodore W., Okin, Gregory S., Webb, Nicholas P., Gallagher, Alex R., Dhital, Saroj, Hodgdon, Taylor S., Ziegler, Nancy P., Michaels, Michelle L. | Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Comparison between deep learning architectures for the 1 km, 10/15-min estimation of downward shortwave radiation from AHI and ABI | Li, Ruohan, Wang, Dongdong, Liang, Shunlin | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Assessment of water demands for irrigation using energy balance and satellite data fusion models in cloud computing: A study in the Brazilian semiarid region | Ferreira, Thomas R., Maguire, Mitchell S., da Silva, Bernardo B., Neale, Christopher M.U., Serrao, Edivaldo A.O., Ferreira, Jessica D., de Moura, Magna S.B., dos Santos, Carlos A.C., Silva, Madson T., Rodrigues, Lineu N., Carvalho, Herica F.S. | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | |
| Assessing the Recent Trends of Land Degradation and Desertification in Romania Using Remote Sensing Indicators | Ontel, Irina, Cheval, Sorin, Irimescu, Anisoara, Boldeanu, George, Amihaesei, Vlad-Alexandru, Mihailescu, Denis, Nertan, Argentina, Angearu, Claudiu-Valeriu, Craciunescu, Vasile | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Bio-geophysical feedback to climate caused by the conversion of Amazon Forest to soybean plantations | Zhang, Jie, Wu, Jin, Hughes, Alice Catherine, Kaplan, Jed O., Maeda, Eduardo Eiji | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Comparison of gap-filling methods for producing all-weather daily remotely sensed near-surface air temperature | Mo, Yaping, Xu, Yongming, Liu, Yonghong, Xin, Yan, Zhu, Shanyou | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Observed and simulated local climate responses to tropical deforestation | Smith, Callum, Robertson, Eddy, Chadwick, Robin, Kelley, Douglas I, Argles, Arthur P K, Coelho, Caio A S, de Souza, Dayana C, Kubota, Paulo Y, Talamoni, Isabela L, Spracklen, Dominick V, Baker, Jessica C A | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Albedo, Anisotropy, Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | |
| Quantification of the uncertainty in multiscale validation of coarse-resolution satellite albedo products: A study based on airborne CASI data | Wu, Xiaodan, Wen, Jianguang, Tang, Rongqi, Wang, Jingping, Zeng, Qicheng, Li, Zheng, You, Dongqin, Lin, Xingwen, Gong, Baochang, Xiao, Qing | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Quantifying Fire-Induced Surface Climate Changes in the Savanna and | De Sales, Fernando, Werner, Zackary, de Souza Ribeiro, Joao Gilberto | Albedo, Anisotropy, Leaf Characteristics, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification | |
| Satellites reveal Earth's seasonally shifting dust emission sources | Chappell, Adrian, Webb, Nicholas P., Hennen, Mark, Schepanski, Kerstin, Ciais, Philippe, Balkanski, Yves, Zender, Charles S., Tegen, Ina, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Tong, Daniel, Baker, Barry, Ekstrom, Marie, Baddock, Matthew, Eckardt, Frank D., Kandakji, Tarek, Lee, Jeffrey A., Nobakht, Mohamad, von Holdt, Johanna, Leys, John F. | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Soilvegetation moisture capacitor maintains dry season vegetation productivity over India | Sebastian, Dawn E., Murtugudde, Raghu, Ghosh, Subimal | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Validation of Vertical Bifacial Agrivoltaic and Other Systems Modelling: Effect of Dynamic Albedo on Irradiance and Power Output Estimations | Ma Lu, Silvia, Zainali, Sebastian, Sundstrom, Elin, Nygren, Anton, Stridh, Bengt, Avelin, Anders, Campana, Pietro | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation | Smith, C., Baker, J. C. A., Spracklen, D. V. | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| A Geometry-Discrete Minimum Reflectance Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm | Zhang, Tianhao, Wang, Lunche, Zhao, Bin, Gu, Yu, Wong, Man Sing, She, Lu, Xia, Xinghui, Dong, Jiadan, Ji, Yuxi, Gong, Wei, Zhu, Zhongmin | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| A GeoNEX-based high spatiotemporal resolution product of land surface downward shortwave radiation and photosynthetically active radiation | Li, Ruohan, Wang, Dongdong, Wang, Weile, Nemani, Ramakrishna | Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Irrigation and warming drive the decreases in surface albedo over High Mountain Asia | Maina, Fadji Z., Kumar, Sujay V., Gangodagamage, Chandana | Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | |
| Integrated influencing mechanism of potential drivers on seasonal variability of LST in Kolkata municipal corporation, India | Bera, Dipankar, Das Chatterjee, Nilanjana, Mumtaz, Faisal, Dinda, Santanu, Ghosh, Subrata, Zhao, Na, Bera, Sudip, Tariq, Aqil | RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Investigating relationships between runofferosion processes and land use and land cover using remote sensing multiple gridded datasets | Fonseca, Claudia Adriana Bueno da, Al-Ansari, Nadhir, Silva, Richarde Marques da, Santos, Celso Augusto Guimaraes, Zerouali, Bilel, Oliveira, Daniel Bezerra de, Elbeltagi, Ahmed | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Monitoring land degradation and assessing its drivers to support sustainable development goal 15.3 in Central Asia | Jiang, Liangliang, Bao, Anming, Jiapaer, Guli, Liu, Rui, Yuan, Ye, Yu, Tao | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Albedo, Anisotropy, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM) | |
| Narrow but robust advantages in two-big-leaf light use efficiency models over big-leaf light use efficiency models at ecosystem level | Bao, Shanning, Ibrom, Andreas, Wohlfahrt, Georg, Koirala, Sujan, Migliavacca, Mirco, Zhang, Qian, Carvalhais, Nuno | Albedo, Anisotropy | |
| Impacts of sub-grid topographic representations on surface energy balance and boundary conditions in the E3SM land modelA case study in Sierra Nevada | Hao, Dalei, Bisht, Gautam, Huang, Meng, Ma, PoLun, Tesfa, Teklu, Lee, WeiLiang, Gu, Yu, Leung, L. Ruby | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Albedo, Anisotropy, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Land Use/Land Cover Classification |