STAR - Global Vegetation Health Products : VHP META data file
Statisticc information was generated for each VHP product file and
saved as META data file in standard XML format. Here is an exmaple META data file:
VHP.G04.C07.NC.P1982001.ND.META.xml
The following inforation was included in META data File:
File Attributes
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| PRODUCT_NAME | Product name |
| VERSION | Software version |
| SATELLITE | Satellite ID |
| INSTRUMENT | Instrument name |
| DATE_BEGIN | Begin date of data used |
| DATE_END | End date of data used |
| TIME_BEGIN | Begin time of data used |
| TIME_END | End date of data used |
| ANCILLARY_FILES | list of Ancillary files |
| CITATION_TO_DOCUMENTS | Citation to documents |
| CONTACT | Contact |
| CONFIGURE_FILE_CONTENT | Content of configure file |
| PROJECTION | Projection mode |
| END_LATITUDE_RANGE | Minimum latitude of data field |
| START_LONGITUDE_RANGE | Minimum longitude of data field |
| START_LATITUDE_RANGE | Maximum latitude of data field |
| END_LONGITUDE_RANGE | Maximum longitude of data field |
| YEAR | Year |
| PERIOD_OF_YEAR | Period of year |
| DAYS_PER_PERIOD | Number of days per period |
| IGBP_LANDTYPE_NAMES | List of IDBP land Types |
statistics information
For Each variable, the following statistics information was produced for Gloabl, each latitude zone and each IGBP land types:
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| TOTOAL_PIXEL | Total number of pixels |
| MISSING_PIXELS | Number of missing pixels |
| MISSING_PERCENTAGE | Percentage of missing pixels |
| MEAN | mean value of this variable |
Additional information
The following parameters were also output to characterize the statistic categories:
| statistic categories | parameters | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| AVERGAE_BY_LATITUDEZONE | ZONES START_LATITUDE LATITUDE_INTERVAL |
number of latitide zones the start latitude (in degree) the size of latitude zone (in degree) when counting for each latitde zones |
| AVERGAE_BY_REGIONS |
TOTAL_REGIONS NAMES TYPES MinLongitude MaxLongitude MinLatitude MaxLatitude |
the number of regions names of regions types of regions minimum longitude for regions maximum longitude for regions minimum latitude for regions maximum latitude for regions |
| HISTOGRAM | NBINS MIN MAX HISTO |
the number of bins for histogram the minimum data value for histogram the maximum data value for histogram the histogram values for each bin |