V005 MODIS 16-day Vegetation Indices 0.05 Degree CMG QA Science Data Sets
The QA information below is excerpted from the Quality Science
Data Set within an HDF-EOS MOD13C1 file. Additional information may be available in the MODIS Terra Vegetation
Indices file specifications available on-line at ftp://modular.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/LatestFilespecs/collection5/.
A summary Quality layer has been included in the MOD13C1: “pixel reliability.” This layer contains ranked values describing overall pixel quality (Table 1 below).
TABLE 1: MOD13C1 Pixel Reliability
Rank Key
Summary QA
Description
-1
Fill/No Data
Not Processed
0
Good Data
Use with confidence
1
Marginal data
Useful, but look at other QA
information
2
Snow/Ice
Target covered with snow/ice
3
Cloudy
Target not visible, covered with cloud
4
Estimated
From MODIS historic time series
TABLE 2: MOD13C1 VI Quality
Bit 0 is the least significant (read bit words right to left)
bit
Long Name
Value
Key
0-1
MODLAND_QA
00
VI produced, good quality
01
VI produced, but check other QA
10
Pixel produced, but most probably cloudy
11
Pixel not produced due to other reasons than clouds
2-5
VI usefulness
0000
Highest quality
0001
Lower quality
0010
Decreasing quality
0100
Decreasing quality
1000
Decreasing quality
1001
Decreasing quality
1010
Decreasing quality
1100
Lowest quality
1101
Quality so low that it is not useful
1110
L1B data faulty
1111
Not useful for any other reason/not processed
6-7
Aerosol quantity
00
Climatology
01
Low
10
Average
11
High
8
Adjacent cloud detected
1
Yes
0
No
9
Atmosphere BRDF correction performed
1
Yes
0
No
10
Mixed Clouds
1
Yes
0
No
11-13
Land/Water Flag
000
Shallow ocean
001
Land (Nothing else but land)
010
Ocean coastlines and lake shorelines
011
Shallow inland water
100
Ephemeral water
101
Deep inland water
110
Moderate or continental ocean
111
Deep ocean
14-15
Geospatial quality
00
<= 25% of the finer 1km resolution contributed to this CMG
pixel
01
>25% and <= 50% of the finer 1km resolution contributed to
this CMG pixel
10
>50% and <= 75% of the finer 1km resolution contributed to
this CMG pixel
11
>75% and <=100% of the finer 1km resolution contributed to
this CMG pixel