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Description

The MOD17A2H Version 6.1 Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) product is a cumulative 8-day composite of values with 500 meter (m) pixel size based on the radiation use efficiency concept that can be potentially used as inputs to data models to calculate terrestrial energy, carbon, water cycle processes, and biogeochemistry of vegetation. The data product includes information about GPP and Net Photosynthesis (PSN). The PSN band values are the GPP less the Maintenance Respiration (MR). The data product also contains a PSN Quality Control (QC) layer. The quality layer contains quality information for both the GPP and the PSN.

Known Issues

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6.1 GPP data products: (1) Version 6.1 Level-1B (L1B) products have been improved by undergoing various calibration changes that include: changes to the response-versus-scan angle (RVS) approach that affects reflectance bands for Aqua and Terra MODIS, corrections to adjust for the optical crosstalk in Terra MODIS infrared (IR) bands, and corrections to the Terra MODIS forward look-up table (LUT) update for the period 2012 – 2017, (2) A polarization correction has been applied to the L1B Reflective Solar Bands (RSB), and (3) The product uses Climatology Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) as back up to the operational LAI/FPAR.

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Projects
TERRA
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
2021-01-01 to Present
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
C2565791027-LPCLOUD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
90023
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Photosynthesis ,
Primary Production ,
Vegetation Productivity

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

Running, S., Mu, Q., & Zhao, M. (2021). MODIS/Terra Gross Primary Productivity 8-Day L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V061 [Dataset]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD17A2H.061 Date Accessed: 2026-07-09

File Naming Convention

MOD17A2H.A2025209.h05v11.061.2025218043205.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD17A2H) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2025209), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h05v11), the Version of the data collection (061), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2025218043205), and the Data Format (hdf).

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

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Title Year Author Topic
Annual dynamics of carbon dioxide fluxes over a rainfed alfalfa field in the US Southern Great Plains Wagle, Pradeep, Gowda, Prasanna H., Northup, Brian K. Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Assessment of risk and resilience of terrestrial ecosystem productivity under the influence of extreme climatic conditions over India Jha, Srinidhi, Das, Jew, Goyal, Manish Kumar Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti-Mara ecosystem Probert, James R., Parr, Catherine L., Holdo, Ricardo M., Anderson, T. Michael, Archibald, Sally, Courtney Mustaphi, Colin J., Dobson, Andrew P., Donaldson, Jason E., Hopcraft, Grant C., Hempson, Gareth P., Morrison, Thomas A., Beale, Colin M. Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Assimilation of earth observation data over cropland and grassland sites into a simple GPP model Meroni, Michele, Fasbender, Dominique, Lopez-Lozano, Raul, Migliavacca, Mirco Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Evaluating the effectiveness of using vegetation indices based on red-edge reflectance from Sentinel-2 to estimate gross primary productivity Lin, Shangrong, Li, Jing, Liu, Qinhuo, Li, Longhui, Zhao, Jing, Yu, Wentao Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Evaluating the performance of satellite-derived vegetation indices for estimating gross primary productivity using FLUXNET observations across the globe Huang, Xiaojuan, Xiao, Jingfeng, Ma, Mingguo Reflectance, Anisotropy, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Estimating deciduous broadleaf forest gross primary productivity by Chen, Yue, Shen, Wei, Gao, Shuai, Zhang, Kun, Wang, Jian, Huang, Ni Reflectance, Anisotropy, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Gross primary productivity in areas of different land cover in the western Brazilian Amazon Chagas, Mariana C., Delgado, Rafael C., de Souza, Leonardo P., de Carvalho, Daniel C., Pereira, Marcos G., Teodoro, Paulo E., Silva Junior, Carlos A. Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Vegetation functional properties determine uncertainty of simulated ecosystem productivityA traceability analysis in the East Asian Monsoon region Cui, Erqian, Huang, Kun, Arain, Muhammad Altaf, Fisher, Joshua B., Huntzinger, Deborah N., Ito, Akihiko, Luo, Yiqi, Jain, Atul K., Mao, Jiafu, Michalak, Anna M., Niu, Shuli, Parazoo, Nicholas C., Peng, Changhui, Peng, Shushi, Poulter, Benjamin, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Schaefer, Kevin M., Schwalm, Christopher R., Shi, Xiaoying, Tian, Hanqin, Wang, Weile, Wang, Jinsong, Wei, Yaxing, Yan, Enrong, Yan, Liming, Zeng, Ning, Zhu, Qiuan, Xia, Jianyang Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Discharge, Soil Depth, Biomass, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Albedo, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Carbon, Respiration Rate, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Runoff, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen Compounds, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Agricultural Lands, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification
Modeling gross primary production of a typical coastal wetland in China using MODIS time series and CO2 eddy flux tower data Kang, Xiaoming, Yan, Liang, Zhang, Xiaodong, Li, Yong, Tian, Dashuan, Peng, Changhui, Wu, Haidong, Wang, Jinzhi, Zhong, Lei Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Retrieval of global terrestrial solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from TanSat satellite Du, Shanshan, Liu, Liangyun, Liu, Xinjie, Zhang, Xiao, Zhang, Xingying, Bi, Yanmeng, Zhang, Lianchong Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Response of Tropical Terrestrial Gross Primary Production to the Super Zhu, Jiawen, Zhang, Minghua, Zhang, Yao, Zeng, Xiaodong, Xiao, Xiangming Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Gross Primary Production (gpp), Heterotrophic Respiration (rh), NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE), Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)
Quantifying grazing patterns using a new growth function based on MODIS Leaf Area Index Yu, Rui, Evans, A.J., Malleson, N. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Quantifying impacts of land-use/cover change on urban vegetation gross primary productionA case study of Wuhan, China Liu, Shishi, Du, Wei, Su, Hang, Wang, Shanqin, Guan, Qingfeng Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Solar-induced fluorescence detects interannual variation in gross primary production of coniferous forests in the western United States Zuromski, Lauren M., Bowling, David R., Kohler, Philipp, Frankenberg, Christian, Goulden, Michael L., Blanken, Peter D., Lin, John C. Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Underestimates of grassland gross primary production in MODIS standard products Zhu, Xiaoyan, Pei, Yanyan, Zheng, Zhaopei, Dong, Jinwei, Zhang, Yao, Wang, Junbang, Chen, Lajiao, Doughty, Russell B., Zhang, Geli, Xiao, Xiangming Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
An assessment of satellite-based agricultural water productivity over the Indian region Choudhury, Indrani, Bhattacharya, Bimal Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Modelling spatial and temporal dynamics of gross primary production in the Sahel from earth-observation-based photosynthetic capacity and quantum efficiency Tagesson, Torbern, Ardo, Jonas, Cappelaere, Bernard, Kergoat, Laurent, Abdi, Abdulhakim, Horion, Stephanie, Fensholt, Rasmus Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Identification of years with extreme vegetation state in Central Europe based on remote sensing and meteorological data Kern, Aniko, Marjanovic, Hrvoje, Dobor, Laura, Anic, MIslav, Hlasny, Tomas, Barcza, Zoltan Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Validation of collection of 6 MODIS/Terra and MODIS/Aqua gross primary production in an alpine meadow of the Northern Tibetan Plateau Fu, Gang, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Zhen-Xi, Shi, Pei-Li, He, Yong-Tao, Zhang, Xian-Zhou Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN)A statistically based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes and gross primary productivity using solar-induced fluorescence Alemohammad, Seyed Hamed, Fang, Bin, Konings, Alexandra G., Aires, Filipe, Green, Julia K., Kolassa, Jana, Miralles, Diego, Prigent, Catherine, Gentine, Pierre Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone
A data-driven assessment of biosphere-atmosphere interaction impact on seasonal cycle patterns of XCO2 using GOSAT and MODIS observations He, Zhonghua, Zeng, Zhao-Cheng, Lei, Liping, Bie, Nian, Yang, Shaoyuan Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Estimating vegetation primary production in the heihe river basin of China with multi-source and multi-scale data Cui, Tianxiang, Wang, Yujie, Sun, Rui, Qiao, Chen, Fan, Wenjie, Jiang, Guoqing, Hao, Lvyuan, Zhang, Lei Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
The performances of MODIS-GPP and -ET products in China and their sensitivity to input data (FPAR/LAI) Liu, Zhengjia, Shao, Quanqin, Liu, Jiyuan Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Study of primary productivity of the mata atlantica biome via remote sensing PAIVA, C. M., FERNANDES, F. R. Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
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