From the online archive, one of the two pds files for AQUA MODIS is empty.

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From the online archive, one of the two pds files for AQUA MODIS is empty.

by martymas » Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:48 am America/New_York

For example, if you download the file MYD00F.A2025091.0000.20250910251.000.PDS.XZ by direct download or wget, the real size after the download (1KB) is different from the declared one. The files of this type are empty and unusable.

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Re: From the online archive, one of the two pds files for AQUA MODIS is empty.

by LAADS_UserServices_M » Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:21 pm America/New_York

File download is working normally:

04/01/2025 12:12 PM 164 MYD00F.A2025091.0000.20250910251.000.PDS.xz
1 File(s) 164 bytes

After extracting the zip file:
04/01/2025 12:12 PM 384 MYD00F.A2025091.0000.20250910251.000.PDS
1 File(s) 384 bytes
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Re: From the online archive, one of the two pds files for AQUA MODIS is empty.

by martymas » Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:26 am America/New_York

Thanks for reply.
Can you please suggest a free software for using MODIS AQUA PDSs to create the L1 hdf products yourself?

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by LAADS_UserServices_M » Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:46 pm America/New_York

Sorry, we are not aware of any such software.
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Re: From the online archive, one of the two pds files for AQUA MODIS is empty.

by OB.DAAC - SeanBailey » Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:01 pm America/New_York

The SeaDAS package made available from OB.DAAC (https://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov) has a processing component that includes code to process MODIS L0 PDS files to L1A (the wrapper script is cleverly called modis_L1A).

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