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NASA Earth Observing System
The MODIS is the primary instrument in the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua satellites, which were launched in December 1999 and May 2002 respectively, for the purpose of monitoring the seasonality of global terrestrial vegetation. MODIS is a multi-spectral sensor with 36 discrete spectral bands ranging from visible, near infrared, to thermal infrared, which has been extensively used for land, ocean and atmosphere research. The equatorial crossing time for Terra and Aqua satellites are 10:30 a.m. (descending) and 1:30 p.m. (ascending), respectively. In this research, daytime overpass for Terra in descending node is used to collect MODIS ST and NDVI data. Since in this research we aim to implement the proposed downscaling algorithm
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