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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: 2026-06-12

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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Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs Shen, Youjiang, Nielsen, Karina, Revel, Menaka, Liu, Dedi, Yamazaki, Dai Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
The fate of vegetation carbon stocks of India: Insights from a remote-sensed evaluation of carbon use efficiency Chakraborty, Abhishek, Sekhar, M., Rao, Lakshminarayana Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, 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
The effects of landscape composition and configuration on forest Gross Primary Production (GPP) are affected by climate conditions: patterns and management ... Gao, Haiqiang, Ning, Ying, Liu, Shuguang Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Subarctic Vegetation under the Mixed Warming and Air Pollution Influence Kharuk, Viacheslav I., Petrov, Ilya A., Im, Sergei T., Golyukov, Alexey S., Dvinskaya, Maria L., Shushpanov, Alexander S., Savchenko, Alexander P., Temerova, Victoria L. Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
The responses of ecological indicators to compound extreme climate indices in Southwestern China Lu, Qingao, Zhang, Yuandong, Song, Bochao, Shao, Hui, Tian, Xiaorui, Liu, Shirong 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
Stability of the ecosystem gross primary productivity increasing in Chinese forestry ecological engineering area Liu, Huiyu, Wang, Zheng, Wang, Zhaoyue, Zeng, Yanzhuo, Xue, Peng, Zhang, Mingyang Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Vegetation structural shift tells environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau over 40 years Wang, Yanfen, Xue, Kai, Hu, Ronghai, Ding, Boyang, Zeng, Hong, Li, Ruijin, Xu, Bin, Pang, Zhe, Song, Xiaoning, Li, Congjia, Du, Jianqing, Yang, Xiuchun, Zhang, Zelin, Hao, Yanbin, Cui, Xiaoyong, Guo, Ke, Gao, Qingzhu, Zhang, Yangjian, Zhu, Juntao, Sun, Jian, Li, Yaoming, Jiang, Lili, Zhou, Huakun, Luo, Caiyun, Zhang, Zhenhua, Gao, Qingbo, Chen, Shilong, Ji, Baoming, Xu, Xingliang, Chen, Huai, Li, Qi, Zhao, Liang, Xu, Shixiao, Liu, Yali, Hu, Linyong, Wu, Jianshuang, Yang, Qien, Dong, Shikui, He, Jinsheng, Zhao, Xinquan, Wang, Shiping, Piao, Shilong, Yu, Guirui, Fu, Bojie Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Unraveling phenological responses to extreme drought and implications for water and carbon budgets Corak, Nicholas K., Otkin, Jason A., Ford, Trent W., Lowman, Lauren E. L. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Evapotranspiration, Rain, Snow, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Albedo, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff
Impact of climatic changes and anthropogenic activities on ecosystem net primary productivity in India during 20012019 Bejagam, Vijaykumar, Sharma, Ashutosh Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
A global 0.05 dataset for gross primary production of sunlit and shaded vegetation canopies from 1992 to 2020 Bi, Wenjun, He, Wei, Zhou, Yanlian, Ju, Weimin, Liu, Yibo, Liu, Yang, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Wei, Xiaonan, Cheng, Nuo Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
A continuous change tracker model for remote sensing time series reconstruction Zhang, Yangjian, Wang, Li, He, Yuanhuizi, Huang, Ni, Li, Wang, Xu, Shiguang, Zhou, Quan, Song, Wanjuan, Duan, Wensheng, Wang, Xiaoyue, Muhammad, Shakir, Nath, Biswajit, Zhu, Luying, Tang, Feng, Du, Huilin, Wang, Lei, Niu, Zheng Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Reflectance
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 20002020 He, Shaoyang, Zhang, Yongqiang, Ma, Ning, Tian, Jing, Kong, Dongdong, Liu, Changming Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Terrestrial Water Storage, 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, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Emissivity, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
A Multi-Perspective Assessment Method with a Dynamic Benchmark for Human Zhang, Fuguang, Zeng, Biao, Yang, Taibao, Zheng, Yuxuan, Cao, Ying Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
An exploration of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) factors simulated by SCOPE for capturing GPP across vegetation types Yang, Songxi, Yang, Jian, Shi, Shuo, Song, Shalei, Zhang, Yangyang, Luo, Yi, Du, Lin Reflectance, Anisotropy, Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Geopotential Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Pressure Thickness, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Upper Air Temperature, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Fraction, U/V Wind Components, Ozone Profiles, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
A new two-decade (20012019) high-resolution agricultural primary productivity dataset for India Gangopadhyay, Prasun K., Shirsath, Paresh B., Dadhwal, Vinay K., Aggarwal, Pramod K. Reflectance, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland
A transiting temperate-subtropical mixed forest: carbon cycle projection Kim, JiHyun, Kim, Yeonjoo, Kim, Jeongbin, Cho, Kyeungwoo, Hong, Jinkyu, Hong, Je-Woo, Jo, Sungsoo, Park, Chanwoo, Chun, Jung Hwa Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Changes in habitat quality of nature reserves in depopulating areas due to anthropogenic pressureEvidence from Northeast China, 20002018 Wu, Hui, Fang, Shiming, Yang, Yuanyuan, Cheng, Jia Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Assessment of JSBACHv4.30 as a land component of ICON-ESM-V1 in Schneck, Rainer, Gayler, Veronika, Nabel, Julia E. M. S., Raddatz, Thomas, Reick, Christian H., Schnur, Reiner Albedo, Anisotropy, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Emitted Radiation, Emissivity, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance, Transmittance, Atmospheric Stability, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Asymmetry, Cloud Ceiling, Cloud Frequency, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Cloud Emissivity, Cloud Radiative Forcing, Cloud Reflectance, Rain Storms, Atmospheric Ozone, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Productivity
Assessing Variations in Water Use Efficiency and Linkages with Land-Use Sun, Huaiwei, Chen, Lin, Yang, Yong, Lu, Mengge, Qin, Hui, Zhao, Bingqian, Lu, Mengtian, Xue, Jie, Yan, Dong Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Wind Speed, Rain, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Cover, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Assessing land cover and ecological quality changes in the forest-steppe ecotone of the Greater Khingan Mountains, Northeast China, from Landsat and MODIS observations from 2000 to 2018 Shi, Fang, Liu, Mingxing, Qiu, Jie, Zhang, Yali, Su, Huiyi, Mao, Xupeng, Li, Xin, Fan, Jiahui, Chen, Junsong, Lv, Yingying, Xu, Wanggu, Wang, Zhi, Li, Mingshi Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Climate drivers of the variations of vegetation productivity in India Verma, Akash, Chandel, Vikram, Ghosh, Subimal Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Integrating aquatic and terrestrial carbon fluxes to assess the net landscape carbon balance of a highly erodible semiarid catchment Ran, Lishan, Wang, Xuhui, Li, Siliang, Zhou, Yuanyuan, Xu, YiJun, Chan, Chun Ngai, Fang, Nufang, Xin, Zhongbao, Shen, Hongxun Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Soil Respiration, Ecosystem Functions, Soil Respiration
Machine-Learning-Based Regional Yield Forecasting for Sugarcane Crop in Uttar Pradesh, India Nihar, Ashmitha, Patel, N. R., Danodia, Abhishek Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Low sensitivity of three terrestrial biosphere models to soil texture Meunier, Felicien, Verbruggen, Wim, Verbeeck, Hans, Peaucelle, Marc Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Intercomparison of global terrestrial carbon fluxes estimated by MODIS Hu, Qiwen, Li, Tingting, Deng, Xi, Wu, Tongwen, Zhai, Panmao, Huang, Danqing, Fan, Xingwang, Zhu, Yakun, Lin, Yongcheng, Xiao, Xiucheng, Chen, Xianyan, Zhao, Xiaosong, Wang, Lili, Qin, Zhangcai Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
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