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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 [Dataset]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD15A2H.006 Date Accessed: 2026-08-08

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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Asymmetric effects of diurnal warming on carbon allocation to leaves of marsh wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau Wu, Liyuan, Shen, Xiangjin, Lu, Xianguo, Jiang, Ming Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Anthropogenic Influences Alter the Response and Seasonality of Maina, Fadji Z., Kumar, Sujay V. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Assessment of satellite-derived FAPAR products with different spatial resolutions for gross primary productivity estimation Zhang, Xiyu, Jin, Huaan, Zhao, Wei, Yin, Gaofei, Xie, Xinyao, Fan, Jianrong Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Assimilation of carbonyl sulfide (COS) fluxes within the adjoint-based data assimilation systemNanjing University Carbon Assimilation System (NUCAS v1. 0) Zhu, Huajie, Wu, Mousong, Jiang, Fei, Vossbeck, Michael, Kaminski, Thomas, Xing, Xiuli, Wang, Jun, Ju, Weimin, Chen, Jing M. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Carbon restoration potential on global land under water resource constraints Peng, Shouzhang, Terrer, Cesar, Smith, Benjamin, Ciais, Philippe, Han, Qinggong, Nan, Jialan, Fisher, Joshua B., Chen, Liang, Deng, Lei, Yu, Kailiang Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Coherence of recurring fires and land use change in South America Ren, Shulin, Xu, Xiyan, Jia, Gensuo, Huang, Anqi, Ma, Wei Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Characteristics
Constraining light dependency in modeled emissions through comparison to observed biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) concentrations in a southeastern ... Panji, Namrata Shanmukh, McGlynn, Deborah F., Barry, Laura E. R., Scanlon, Todd M., Lerdau, Manuel T., Pusede, Sally E., Isaacman-VanWertz, Gabriel Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia Maina, Fadji Z., Xue, Yuan, Kumar, Sujay V., Getirana, Augusto, McLarty, Sasha, Appana, Ravi, Forman, Bart, Zaitchik, Ben, Loomis, Bryant, Maggioni, Viviana, Zhou, Yifan Snow Cover, Snow Cover, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Characteristics, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Water Budget
Data-constrained modeling of terrestrial gross primary production over Chen, Shaoyuan, Liu, Dan, Zhang, Yuan, Zheng, Rongshun, Wang, Tao Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Deforestation-induced runoff changes dominated by forest-climate feedbacks Ma, Shuai, Zhou, Sha, Yu, Bofu, Song, Jiaxi Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Damage Assessment of the Kupiansk Forest Farm as a Result of Military Actions by Remotely Sensed Data Popov, M., Andreiev, A., Alpert, S., Golubov, S., Lysenko, A. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Ecohydrological and hydrogeological dynamics of groundwater springs in Eastern Himalaya, India Kumar, Manish, Sen, Sumit, Kulkarni, Himanshu, Badiger, Shrinivas, Varma, Girish R., Krishnaswamy, Jagdish Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Does dynamically modeled leaf area improve predictions of land surface water and carbon fluxes? Insights into dynamic vegetation modules Westermann, Sven Armin, Hildebrandt, Anke, Bousetta, Souhail, Thober, Stephan Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Divergent Changes in Vegetation Greenness, Productivity, and Rainfall Yu, Yang, Hua, Ting, Chen, Liding, Zhang, Zhiqiang, Pereira, Paulo Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Conflicting Changes of Vegetation Greenness Interannual Variability on Half of the Global Vegetated Surface Tian, Jiaqi, Luo, Xiangzhong Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Decadal variation and trend of boundary layer height and possible Li, Congcong, Zhang, Xuanze, Guo, Jianping, Yu, Qiang, Zhang, Yongqiang Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Dryland evapotranspiration from remote sensing solar-induced chlorophyll Bu, Jingyi, Gan, Guojing, Chen, Jiahao, Su, Yanxin, Yuan, Mengjia, Gao, Yanchun, Domingo, Francisco, Lopez-Ballesteros, Ana, Migliavacca, Mirco, El-Madany, Tarek S., Gentine, Pierre, Xiao, Jingfeng, Garcia, Monica Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Improving the estimation of atmospheric water vapor pressure using interpretable long short-term memory networks Gao, B., Coon, E.T., Thornton, P.E., Lu, D. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, 24 Hour Precipitation Amount, Snow Water Equivalent, Vapor Pressure, Shortwave Radiation
Improving physiological simulations in seasonally dry tropical forests with limited measurements e Silva, Iago Alvarenga, Rodriguez, Daniel Andres, Espindola, Rogerio Pinto 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 Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Increasing Optimum Temperature of Vegetation Activity Over the Past Four Wang, Yiheng, Sarmah, Sangeeta, Singha, Mrinal, Chen, Weinan, Ge, Yong, Liang, Liyin L., Goswami, Santonu, Niu, Shuli Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Inclusion of bedrock vadose zone in dynamic global vegetation models is key for simulating vegetation structure and function Lapides, Dana A., Hahm, W. Jesse, Forrest, Matthew, Rempe, Daniella M., Hickler, Thomas, Dralle, David N. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation
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
Impact of revegetation and agricultural intensification on water storage variation in the Yellow River Basin Wang, Zijing, Xu, Mengzhen, Penny, Gopal, Hu, Hongchang, Zhang, Xiangping, Tian, Shimin Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Vegetation Cover, Cropland, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Identification of the dominant factors and altitudinal variation in water use efficiency in the QinlingDaba Mountains Zhao, Tixia, Zhu, Lianqi, Dong, Qingdong, Shi, Beibei, Zhao, Jingjing, Zhu, Wenbo Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Impact of oversimplified parameters on BVOC emissions estimation in China: A sensitivity analysis using the WRFCLM4MEGAN model Shang, Fang, Yin, Lifei, Liu, Mingxu, Liu, Bing, Xu, Tingting, Li, Mengmeng, Cai, Xuhui, Kang, Ling, Zhang, Hongsheng, Yue, Xu, Song, Yu Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Total Surface Water
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