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Description

The MOD15A2H Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MOD15A2H Version 6.1 data product.

The MOD15A2H Version 6 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) combined Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) product is an 8-day composite dataset with 500 meter (m) pixel size. The algorithm chooses the “best” pixel available from all the acquisitions of the Terra sensor from within the 8-day period.

LAI is defined as the one-sided green leaf area per unit ground area in broadleaf canopies and as one-half the total needle surface area per unit ground area in coniferous canopies. FPAR is defined as the fraction of incident photosynthetically active radiation, 400-700 nanometers (nm), absorbed by the green elements of a vegetation canopy.

Science Datasets (SDSs) in the Level 4 (L4) MOD15A2H product include LAI, FPAR, two quality layers, and standard deviation for LAI and FPAR. Two low resolution browse images, LAI and FPAR, are also available for each MOD15A2H granule.

Known Issues

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6 LAI and FPAR data products: (1) The Version 6 product uses the daily L2G-lite surface reflectance as input as opposed to MODAGAGG used in Version 5, (2) Products are generated at native resolution of 500 m rather than the 1000 m of the Version 5, and (3) Version 6 uses an improved multi-year land cover product.

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
500 Meters x 500 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
MODIS Sinusoidal Tiling System
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-18 to 2023-02-17
Temporal Resolution
8 Day
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) ,
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/MODAPS)
Concept ID
C2763298089-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) ,
Leaf Area Index (LAI)

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Myneni, R., Knyazikhin, Y., & Park, T. (2015). MOD15A2H MODIS/Terra Leaf Area Index/FPAR 8-Day L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD15A2H.006 Date Accessed: 2026-05-25

File Naming Convention

MOD15A2H.A2002273.h20v06.006.2015151112325.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD15A2H) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2002273), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h20v06), the Version of the data collection (006), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2015151112325), and the Data Format (hdf).

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Publications Citing This Dataset

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Satellite time series data reveal interannual and seasonal spatiotemporal evapotranspiration patterns in China in response to effect factors Cheng, Minghan, Jiao, Xiyun, Jin, Xiuliang, Li, Binbin, Liu, Kaihua, Shi, Lei Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, 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
Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection Chen, Leiyi, Fang, Kai, Wei, Bin, Qin, Shuqi, Feng, Xuehui, Hu, Tianyu, Ji, Chengjun, Yang, Yuanhe Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Responses of vegetation greenness and carbon cycle to extreme droughts Deng, Ying, Wang, Xuhui, Wang, Kai, Ciais, Philippe, Tang, Shuchang, Jin, Lei, Li, Lili, Piao, Shilong Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Remote sensing to study mangrove fragmentation and its impacts on Leaf Area Index and gross primary productivity in the South of Peninsular Malaysia Kanniah, Kasturi Devi, Kang, Chuen Siang, Sharma, Sahadev, Amir, A. Aldrie Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Schatzung der Verdunstung mithilfe von Machine- und Deep Learning-Methoden Brenner, Claire, Frame, Jonathan, Nearing, Grey, Schulz, Karsten Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Simplified version of the METRIC model for estimation of actual evapotranspiration Rezaei, Maryam, Ghasemieh, Hoda, Abdollahi, Khodayar Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise Winkler, Alexander J., Myneni, Ranga B., Hannart, Alexis, Sitch, Stephen, Haverd, Vanessa, Lombardozzi, Danica, Arora, Vivek K., Pongratz, Julia, Nabel, Julia E. M. S., Goll, Daniel S., Kato, Etsushi, Tian, Hanqin, Arneth, Almut, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Jain, Atul K., Zaehle, Sonke, Brovkin, Victor Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Ung dung san pham anh chi so dien tich la (MODIS LAI) va he thong quan trac du lieu thoi tiet trong mo hinh uoc oan nang suat lua Quang, Truong Chi, Le, Vu Bang, Minh, Vo Quang Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of a remote-sensing-based penman-monteith model to meteorological and land surface input variables Majozi, Nobuhle, Mannaerts, Chris, Ramoelo, Abel, Mathieu, Renaud, Verhoef, Wouter Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Albedo, Anisotropy
Towards crop yield estimation at a finer spatial resolution using machine learning methods over agricultural regions Liao, Dehai, Niu, Jun, Lu, Na, Shen, Qianxi Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
The value of water isotope data on improving process understanding in a glacierized catchment on the Tibetan Plateau Nan, Yi, Tian, Lide, He, Zhihua, Tian, Fuqiang, Shao, Lili Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Phenology estimation of subtropical bamboo forests based on assimilated MODIS LAI time series data Li, Xuejian, Du, Huaqiang, Zhou, Guomo, Mao, Fangjie, Zhang, Meng, Han, Ning, Fan, Weiliang, Liu, Hua, Huang, ZiHao, He, Shaobai, Mei, Tingting Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance
Plant phenology evaluation of CRESCENDO land surface models - Part 1: Peano, Daniele, Hemming, Deborah, Materia, Stefano, Delire, Christine, Fan, Yuanchao, Joetzjer, Emilie, Lee, Hanna, Nabel, Julia E. M. S., Park, Taejin, Peylin, Philippe, Warlind, David, Wiltshire, Andy, Zaehle, Sonke Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Postwildfire soil-hydraulic recovery and the persistence of debris flow hazards Thomas, Matthew A., Rengers, Francis K., Kean, Jason W., McGuire, Luke A., Staley, Dennis M., Barnhart, Katherine R., Ebel, Brian A. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Performance stability of the MODIS and VIIRS LAI algorithms inferred from analysis of long time series of products Yan, Kai, Pu, Jiabin, Park, Taejin, Xu, Baodong, Zeng, Yelu, Yan, Guangjian, Weiss, Marie, Knyazikhin, Yuri, Myneni, Ranga B. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Prototyping of LAI and FPAR Retrievals From GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Chen, Yepei, Sun, Kaimin, Li, Wenzhuo, Chen, Chi, Li, Pengfei, Bai, Ting, Park, Taejin, Wang, Weile, Nemani, Ramakrishna R., Myneni, Ranga B. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Reflectance, Snow Grain Size, Snow Cover
Rapid eco-physical impact assessment of tropical cyclones using geospatial technology: a case from severe cyclonic storms Amphan Mishra, Manoranjan, Kar, Dipika, Debnath, Manasi, Sahu, Netrananda, Goswami, Shreerup Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Quantifying the contributions of human activities and climate change to Ge, Wenyan, Deng, Liqiang, Wang, Fei, Han, Jianqiao Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Combining Multi-Source Data and Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Wang, Yumiao, Zhang, Zhou, Feng, Luwei, Du, Qingyun, Runge, Troy Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Albedo, Anisotropy
Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using Copernicus Ground Based ... Brown, Luke A., Meier, Courtney, Morris, Harry, Pastor-Guzman, Julio, Bai, Gabriele, Lerebourg, Christophe, Gobron, Nadine, Lanconelli, Christian, Clerici, Marco, Dash, Jadunandan Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Flux variance similarity-based partitioning of evapotranspiration over a rainfed alfalfa field using high frequency eddy covariance data Wagle, Pradeep, Skaggs, Todd H., Gowda, Prasanna H., Northup, Brian K., Neel, James P.S. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Fire decline in dry tropical ecosystems enhances decadal land carbon Yin, Yi, Bloom, A. Anthony, Worden, John, Saatchi, Sassan, Yang, Yan, Williams, Mathew, Liu, Junjie, Jiang, Zhe, Worden, Helen, Bowman, Kevin, Frankenberg, Christian, Schimel, David Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area
Improving SWAT model calibration using soil MERGE (SMERGE) Tobin, Kenneth J., Bennett, Marvin E. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance Ge, Jun, Pitman, Andrew J., Guo, Weidong, Zan, Beilei, Fu, Congbin Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
A framework for harmonizing multiple satellite instruments to generate a long-term global high spatial-resolution solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) Wen, J., Kohler, P., Duveiller, G., Parazoo, N.C., Magney, T.S., Hooker, G., Yu, L., Chang, C.Y., Sun, Y. Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Heat Flux, Liquid Precipitation, Snow/Ice
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