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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: 2026-06-17

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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Title Year Author Topic
Analogy-Based Crop Yield Forecasts Based on Temporal Similarity of Leaf Liu, Yadong, Kim, Junhwan, Fleisher, David H., Kim, Kwang-Soo Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Analysis of Priestley-Taylor method in different environments and Florencia Degano, Maria, Carmona, Facundo, Olivera Rodriguez, Paula, Faraminan, Adan, Rivas, Raul, Bayala, Martin, Niclos Corts, Raquel Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Albedo, Anisotropy
A revision of the Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) used in the European Drought Observatory (EDO) Cammalleri, Carmelo, Arias-Munoz, Carolina, Barbosa, Paulo, de Jager, Alfred, Magni, Diego, Masante, Dario, Mazzeschi, Marco, McCormick, Niall, Naumann, Gustavo, Spinoni, Jonathan, Vogt, Jurgen Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction Chen, Yongzhe, Feng, Xiaoming, Tian, Hanqin, Wu, Xutong, Gao, Zhen, Feng, Yu, Piao, Shilong, Lv, Nan, Pan, Naiqing, Fu, Bojie Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
An assessment of the MOD17A2 gross primary production product in the Caatinga biome, Brazil Ferreira, Rosaria R., Mutti, Pedro, Mendes, Keila R., Campos, Suany, Marques, Thiago V., P. Oliveira, Cristiano, Goncalves, Weber, Mota, Jonathan, Difante, Gelson, Urbano, Stella A., Fernandes, Leonardo, Bezerra, Bergson G., Santos E Silva, Claudio M. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
An improved IBIS model for simulating NPP dynamics in alpine mountain ecosystems: A case study in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau Zeng, Biao, Zhang, Fuguang, Wei, Lanlan, Zhang, Xiaomiao, Yang, Taibao Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Calibration of FEST-EWB hydrological model using remote sensing data in a climate transition region in Brazil Araujo, Diego Cezar dos Santos, Montenegro, Suzana Maria Gico Lima, Corbari, Chiara, Viana, Jussara Freire de Souza Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Can we use precipitation isotope outputs of isotopic general circulation models to improve hydrological modeling in large mountainous catchments on the ... Nan, Yi, He, Zhihua, Tian, Fuqiang, Wei, Zhongwang, Tian, Lide Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Bark water storage plays key role for growth of mediterranean epiphytic lichens Porada, Philipp, Giordani, Paolo Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
CLASSIC v1.0: The open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) - Part 2: Global benchmarking Seiler, Christian, Melton, Joe R., Arora, Vivek K., Wang, Libo Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter, Burned Area, Albedo, Anisotropy
Assessing variability of optimum air temperature for photosynthesis across site-years, sites and biomes and their effects on photosynthesis estimation Chang, Qing, Xiao, Xiangming, Doughty, Russell, Wu, Xiaocui, Jiao, Wenzhe, Qin, Yuanwei Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance
Assessment of spatio-temporal variation and driving mechanism of ecological environment quality in the Arid regions of central asia, Xinjiang Bi, Xu, Chang, Bianrong, Hou, Fen, Yang, Zihan, Fu, Qi, Li, Bo Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Assessment of surface roughness and fractional vegetation coverage in the CoLM for modeling regional land surface temperature Yuan, Xiuliang, Hamdi, Rafiq, Ochege, Friday Uchenna, De Maeyer, Philippe, Kurban, Alishir, Chen, Xi Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Evaluation of variation in radiative and turbulent fluxes over winter wheat ecosystem along Indo-Gangetic region Pokhariyal, Shweta, Patel, Natvar Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Mapping tree diversity in the tropical forest region of Choco-Colombia Fagua, J Camilo, Jantz, Patrick, Burns, Patrick, Massey, Richard, Buitrago, Jeiner Y, Saatchi, Sassan, Hakkenberg, Christopher, Goetz, Scott J Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Indias commitments to increase tree and forest coverConsequences for water supply and agriculture production within the central Indian Highlands Clark, Benjamin, DeFries, Ruth, Krishnaswamy, Jagdish Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Long time series of daily evapotranspiration in China based on the SEBAL model and multisource images and validation Cheng, Minghan, Jiao, Xiyun, Li, Binbin, Yu, Xun, Shao, Mingchao, Jin, Xiuliang Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Leaf area index remote sensing based on Deep Belief Network supported by simulation data Sun, Lin, Wang, Weiyan, Jia, Chen, Liu, Xirong Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance
Machine learning-based modeling of vegetation leaf area index and gross primary productivity across North America and comparison with a process-based model Zhang, Zhicheng, Xin, Qinchuan, Li, Wanjing Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Machine learning estimates of eddy covariance carbon flux in a scrub in the Mexican highland Guevara-Escobar, Aurelio, Gonzalez-Sosa, Enrique, Cervantes-Jimenez, Monica, Suzan-Azpiri, Humberto, Queijeiro-Bolanos, Monica Elisa, Carrillo-Angeles, Israel, Cambron-Sandoval, Victor Hugo Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Characteristics, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance, Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Identifying vulnerable populations and transmission pathways by Price, Thomas Ryan Vernon, Barua, Sepul Kanti Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Integration of remote-sensing based metrics and econometric models to assess the socio-economic contributions of carbon sequestration in unmanaged tropical dry forests Castro-Magnani, Marissa, Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo, Metternicht, Graciela, Laakso, Kati Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Integration of vulnerability and hazard factors for landslide risk assessment Arrogante-Funes, Patricia, Bruzon, Adrian G., Arrogante-Funes, Fatima, Ramos-Bernal, Rocio N., Vazquez-Jimenez, Rene Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Isoscape of surface runoff in high mountain catchments: An alternate model for meteoric water characterization and its implications Dasgupta, Bibhasvata, Ajay, Ajay, Kumar, Anurag, Thamban, Meloth, Sanyal, Prasanta Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Impacts of alternate wetting and drying and delayed flood rice irrigation on growing season evapotranspiration Reavis, Colby W., Suvocarev, Kosana, Reba, Michele L., Runkle, Benjamin R.K. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
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