Known issues in MCD12 product (Land Cover Classification)

Related PGEs: PGE40 (MOD12M), PGE41 (MCD12Q1/Q2)

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Summary

Color Key Case pending Case closed Case reopened QA note
Case number Opening Date Last Update
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Status Description
PM_MCD12_12145 05/24/12 05/24/12 Note MCD12Q2 MODIS Land Cover Dynamics corrupt input
PM_MCD12_11002 08/26/11 08/26/11 Pending MOD12Q2 Land Cover Dynamics, Known Issues
PM_MCD12_11001 08/26/11 10/7/11 Pending MOD12Q1 MODIS Collection 5 Land-cover known issues
CC_MOD12_10117 04/27/10 05/10/10 Closed Most quality flags in MCD12Q2 are fill
SD_MOD12_09310b 06/11/09 06/11/09 Pending Incorrect or invalid metadata values in C5 MCD12Q2
SD_MOD12_09310a 06/11/09 06/11/09 Pending Incorrect metadata values in C5 MCD12Q1
SD_MOD12_09308 11/04/09 11/04/09 Pending Land Cover Type QC is not populated in C5 Land Cover product
EM_MCD12_09127 05/06/09 06/09/09 Closed Land Cover Type 5 showing out of range values
SD_MOD12_09091 04/01/09 04/01/09 Pending Values for the qa percent quality metadata in MCD12Q2 are invalid
EM_MCD12_090622 06/22/09 06/22/09 Pending MOD12Q1 pixels being misclassified at the edge of grid
MF_MOD12_04146j 05/25/04 05/25/04 Pending Error in classification due to artifact in LAI/FPAR
MF_MOD12_04146i 05/25/04 05/25/04Pending False classification of evergreen broadleef forests in some areas
MF_MOD12_04146h 05/25/04 05/25/04 Note Problem classifying tropical area with persistent cloud cover in 2001001V4 MOD12Q1
MF_MOD12_04146g 05/25/04 05/25/04 Pending Error classifying bright targets in 2001001V4 MOD12Q1
MF_MOD12_04146f 05/25/04 05/25/04 Pending Problem representing the global agriculture in 2001001V4 MOD12Q1
MF_MOD12_04146e 05/25/04 05/25/04 Pending Classification error in permanent wetlands and coastal area in 2001001V4 MOD12Q1
MF_MOD12_04146d 05/25/04 05/25/04 Note Input data limitation at high altitude in 2001001V4 MOD12Q1.
MF_MOD12_04146c 05/25/04 05/25/04 Note Improved representation of global urban land cover in MOD12Q1 2001001 V4 product
MF_MOD12_04146b 05/25/04 05/25/04 Note Classfication error in 2001001 V4 MOD12Q1 product
MF_MOD12_04146a 05/25/04 05/25/04 Note Substantial differences between MOD12Q1 2001001V4 and Collection 3 2000289 version
JB_MOD12_01317 11/13/01 08/19/04 Note Shortened end-of-year compositing period
DR_MOD12_01177 06/25/01 07/17/01 Closed Intermittent artifact in first column of the tile land cover data
DR_MOD12_01173 06/22/01 08/19/04 Closed Suspected cropland classification issue
DR_MOD12_01123 05/04/01 06/21/01 Closed Permanent wetland class not included in beta run of MOD12Q1
DR_MOD12_01122 05/02/01 08/19/04 Closed Systematic unclassified pixels found to the West of Eastern shores in Land_Cover_Type_1 of MOD12Q1.
DR_MOD12_01118 04/26/01 06/21/01 Closed G-Ring metadata missing from MOD12Q1 in 2000289 product
SD_MOD12_00146c 05/25/99 08/19/04 Note SDS Snow_QC in MOD12M contains only fill values
SD_MOD12_00146b 05/25/00 05/24/01 Closed SDS Text and Text_QC in MOD12M tiles contain all fill values
SD_MOD12_00146a 05/25/00 05/25/01 Closed Sum of QA Summary metadata in some MOD12M tiles is invalid
SD_MOD12_00145b 05/24/00 05/25/01 Closed Incorrect local granule ID in some MOD12M tiles
SD_MOD12_00145a 05/24/00 05/24/01 Closed MODLAND QA metadata have incorrect datatype in MOD12M tiles
JD_MOD12_99135 05/15/99 08/19/04 Closed Some water pixels are "unclassified" in Land_Cover_Type_1 of MOD12Q1

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Last Updated: 05/24/2012