Full resolution browse images are made for all the gridded MODIS Land products
in order to enable synoptic
quality assessment
via the internet.
The images are made
at nine MODIS Land golden tiles selected over areas that are expected to be
representative of the variability of the majority of the MODIS Land products.
These tiles are also used to generate
time series plots on a systematic basis. The golden tile browse images are generated with fixed contrast stretching and color look-up
tables to enable consistent temporal comparison. Only images for the most recent month of production are available.
The golden tile browse images available on this web site should not
be used for scientific analyses.
Coarse spatial resolution global browse images are also available.