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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
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
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: 2026-06-16

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).

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

DATA PRODUCT SPECIFICATION

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

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Remote sensing products validated by flux tower data in Amazon Rain Forest Paca, Victor Hugo da Motta, Espinoza-Davalos, Gonzalo E., da Silva, Rodrigo, Tapajos, Raphael, dos Santos Gaspar, Avner Brasileiro Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Respiration regimes in rivers: Partitioning source-specific respiration Bertuzzo, Enrico, Hotchkiss, Erin R., Argerich, Alba, Kominoski, John S., OviedoVargas, Diana, Savoy, Philip, Scarlett, Rachel, von Schiller, Daniel, Heffernan, James B. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Response of vegetation ecosystems to flash drought with solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence over the Hai River Basin, China during 2001-2019 Yao, Tingting, Liu, Suxia, Hu, Shi, Mo, Xingguo Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Spatial-temporal variations of terrestrial evapotranspiration across China from 2000 to 2019 Fu, Jing, Gong, Yueqi, Zheng, Wenwu, Zou, Jun, Zhang, Meng, Zhang, Zhongbo, Qin, Jianxin, Liu, Jianxiong, Quan, Bin Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Latent Heat Flux
The Coupling of Soil Water and Leaf Phenology Observed by Satellite During Australian Bushfires in 20192020 Liu, Yuqing, Shi, Wenzhong, Zhang, Min, Hao, Ming, Zhang, Hua, Sun, Yangjie Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Terrain Elevation, Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Synergy of remotely sensed data in spatiotemporal dynamic modeling of the crop and cover management factor PREETHA, Pooja P., AL-HAMDAN, Ashraf Z. 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)
Temperature Mediates the Dynamic of MODIS NPP in Alpine Grassland on the Tibetan Plateau, 20012019 Cui, Jinxia, Wang, Yanding, Zhou, Tiancai, Jiang, Lili, Qi, Qingwen Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Spatio-temporal variability of water use efficiency and its drivers in major forest formations in India Nandy, Subrata, Saranya, M., Srinet, Ritika Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Spatiotemporal variation in gross primary productivity and their responses to climate in the great lakes region of Sub-Saharan Africa during 20012020 Kayiranga, Alphonse, Chen, Baozhang, Wang, Fei, Nthangeni, Winny, Dilawar, Adil, Hategekimana, Yves, Zhang, Huifang, Guo, Lifeng Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Using an object-based machine learning ensemble approach to upscale evapotranspiration measured from eddy covariance towers in a subtropical wetland Zhang, Caiyun, Brodylo, David, Rahman, Mizanur, Rahman, Md Atiqur, Douglas, Thomas A., Comas, Xavier Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance
Vegetation greening and climate change promote an increase in evapotranspiration across Siberia Shi, Shangyu, Wang, Ping, Yu, Jingjie Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification
WaterSmart-GISA web application of a data assimilation model to support irrigation research and decision making Zhao, Haoteng, Di, Liping, Sun, Ziheng Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Surface Soil Moisture
Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia Maina, Fadji Zaouna, Kumar, Sujay V., Albergel, Clement, Mahanama, Sarith P. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Tropical surface temperature response to vegetation cover changes and the role of drylands Feldman, Andrew F., Short Gianotti, Daniel J., Dong, Jianzhi, Trigo, Isabel F., Salvucci, Guido D., Entekhabi, Dara Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Wildfire Impacts on Snowpack Phenology in a Changing Climate Within the Giovando, Jeremy, Niemann, Jeffrey D. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
A decadal (20082017) daily evapotranspiration data set of 1 km spatial resolution and spatial completeness across the North China Plain using TSEB and data fusion Zhang, Caijin, Long, Di, Zhang, Yucui, Anderson, Martha C., Kustas, William P., Yang, Yang Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
A framework to assess the potential uncertainties of three FPAR products Chen, Xin, Chen, Tiexi, Shu, Yu, Yan, Qingyun, Han, Qifei, Wei, Xueqiong, Li, Chaofan, Wang, Guojie, Xie, Yong Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification
20 years of landscape dynamics within the world's largest multinational network of protected areas Chetan, Marinela Adriana, Dornik, Andrei Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
A modified two-leaf light use efficiency model for improving the Guan, Xiaobin, Chen, Jing M., Shen, Huanfeng, Xie, Xinyao Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
A long-term estimation of biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission in China from 20012016: the roles of land cover change and climate ... Wang, Hui, Wu, Qizhong, Guenther, Alex B., Yang, Xiaochun, Wang, Lanning, Xiao, Tang, Li, Jie, Feng, Jinming, Xu, Qi, Cheng, Huaqiong Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Vegetation Cover
A methodology to reconstruct LAI time series data based on generative adversarial network and improved Savitzky-Golay filter Huang, Anqi, Shen, Runping, Di, Wenli, Han, Huimin Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification
A new linear relation for estimating surface broadband emissivity in arid regions based on ftir and modis products Li, Huoqing, Liu, Zonghui, Mamtimin, Ali, Liu, Junjian, Liu, Yongqiang, Ju, Chenxiang, Zhang, Hailiang, Gao, Zhibo Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Are Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration Models Reliable Across South Melo, D. C. D., Anache, J. A. A., Borges, V. P., Miralles, D. G., Martens, B., Fisher, J. B., Nobrega, R. L. B., Moreno, A., Cabral, O. M. R., Rodrigues, T. R., Bezerra, B., Silva, C. M. S., Neto, A. A. Meira, Moura, M. S. B., Marques, T. V., Campos, S., Nogueira, J. S., Rosolem, R., Souza, R. M. S., Antonino, A. C. D., Holl, D., Galleguillos, M., PerezQuezada, J. F., Verhoef, A., Kutzbach, L., Lima, J. R. S., Souza, E. S., Gassman, M. I., Perez, C. F., Tonti, N., Posse, G., Rains, D., Oliveira, P. T. S., Wendland, E. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Application of optical remote sensing in rubber plantations: A systematic review Azizan, Fathin Ayuni, Kiloes, Adhitya Marendra, Astuti, Ike Sari, Abdul Aziz, Ammar Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
ASCAT IB: A radar-based vegetation optical depth retrieved from the Liu, Xiangzhuo, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Fan, Lei, Frappart, Frederic, Ciais, Philippe, Baghdadi, Nicolas, Zribi, Mehrez, Jagdhuber, Thomas, Li, Xiaojun, Wang, Mengjia, Bai, Xiaojing, Moisy, Christophe Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthetically Active Radiation
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