MODIS has been around for some 12 years. There are many products that have large time series over the whole globe which one can use to study things. So I might want to produce a a timeseries of the 8-day Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) product over say the UK. Moreover ...

So, it's quite tricky to play around with these geospatial datasets: they have a myriad formats, these keep changing, and you can never know what metadata will be available in them. A clever way around this situation is to use tools that allow you to read most of the ...