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Description

The MOD17A2H Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MOD17A2H Version 6.1 data product.

The MOD17A2H Version 6 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 gross primary productivity data products: (1) The product uses updated Biome Property look-up tables (BPLUT) and an updated version of the daily Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) meteorological data, and (2) The products are now generated at the native resolution of 500 m using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area Index(LAI)/Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) (MOD15A2H) 8-day composite at 500 m resolution.

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
C2763298100-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
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. (2015). MOD17A2H MODIS/Terra Gross Primary Productivity 8-Day L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD17A2H.006 Date Accessed: 2026-06-19

File Naming Convention

MOD17A2H.A2002273.h12v01.006.2015151211045.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD17A2H) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2002273), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h12v01), the Version of the data collection (006), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2015151211045), 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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A new wetness index to evaluate the soil water availability influence on gross primary production of european forests Proietti, Chiara, Anav, Alessandro, Vitale, Marcello, Fares, Silvano, Fornasier, Maria Francesca, Screpanti, Augusto, Salvati, Luca, Paoletti, Elena, Sicard, Pierre, De Marco, Alessandra 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)
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
Identifying and forecasting potential biophysical risk areas within a tropical mangrove ecosystem using multi-sensor data Shrestha, Shanti, Miranda, Isabel, Kumar, Abhishek, Pardo, Maria Luisa Escobar, Dahal, Subash, Rashid, Taufiq, Remillard, Caren, Mishra, Deepak R. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Mapping photosynthesis solely from solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescenceA global, fine-resolution dataset of gross primary production derived from OCO-2 Li, Xing, Xiao, Jingfeng Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Linear downscaling from MODIS to Landsat: connecting landscape composition with ecosystem functions Chen, Jiquan, Sciusco, Pietro, Ouyang, Zutao, Zhang, Rong, Henebry, Geoffrey M., John, Ranjeet, Roy, David. P. Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy
Improving estimation of gross primary production in dryland ecosystems by a model-data fusion approach Wang, Haibo, Li, Xin, Ma, Mingguo, Geng, Liying Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Improvement of satellite-based estimation of gross primary production through optimization of meteorological parameters and high resolution land cover information at regional scale over East Asia Park, Haemi, Im, Jungho, Kim, Miae Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Ecosystem service change caused by climatological and non-climatological Braun, Daniela, de Jong, Rogier, Schaepman, Michael E., Furrer, Reinhard, Hein, Lars, Kienast, Felix, Damm, Alexander Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
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
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
Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 20022017 Zhang, Yongqiang, Kong, Dongdong, Gan, Rong, Chiew, Francis H.S., McVicar, Tim R., Zhang, Qiang, Yang, Yuting Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, 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, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Vegetation Productivity
Contrasting performance of the remotely-derived GPP products over different climate zones across China Chen, Yanan, Gu, Hongfan, Wang, Munan, Gu, Qing, Ding, Zhi, Ma, Mingguo, Liu, Rongyuan, Tang, Xuguang Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Contrasting the Performance of Eight Satellite-Based GPP Models in Zhang, Liangxia, Zhou, Decheng, Fan, Jiangwen, Guo, Qun, Chen, Shiping, Wang, Ranghui, Li, Yuzhe Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
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
Does land use change affect green space water use? An analysis of the Haihe River Basin Zhao, Yu, Zhang, Xuanchang, Bai, Yang, Mi, Feng Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
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
Prediction of high-quality MODIS-NPP product data Liu, Zhenhua, Wang, Ting, Qu, Yonghua, Liu, Huiming, Wu, Xiaofang, Wen, Ya Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Monitoring spatio-temporal changes of terrestrial ecosystem soilwater use efficiency in northeast China using time series remote sensing data Qi, Hang, Huang, Fang, Zhai, Huan Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Monitoring the variation of vegetation water content with machine learning methodsPoint-surface fusion of MODIS products and GNSS-IR observations Yuan, Qiangqiang, Li, Shuwen, Yue, Linwei, Li, Tongwen, Shen, Huanfeng, Zhang, Liangpei Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Reflectance, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Characteristics, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
National estimation of soil organic carbon storage potential for arable soils: A data-driven approach coupled with carbon-landscape zones Chen, Songchao, Arrouays, Dominique, Angers, Denis A., Chenu, Claire, Barre, Pierre, Martin, Manuel P., Saby, Nicolas P.A., Walter, Christian Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Quantifying Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics Using a Three-Dimensional Liao, Chang, Zhuang, Qianlai, Leung, L. Ruby, Guo, Laodong Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Spatial distribution of XCO2 using OCO-2 data in growing seasons Siabi, Zhaleh, Falahatkar, Samereh, Alavi, Seyed Jalil Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Revisiting assessments of ecosystem drought recovery Liu, Laibao, Gudmundsson, Lukas, Hauser, Mathias, Qin, Dahe, Li, Shuangcheng, Seneviratne, Sonia I Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Seasonal dynamics of vegetation on fallow lands in Krasnoyarsk Forest steppe according to terrain and satellite data Shevyrnogov, A. P., Pisman, T. I., Kononova, N. A., Botvich, I. Yu., Larko, A. A., Vysotskaya, G. S. Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
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