DEVELOPMENT OF WEB-DOWNLOADING SYSTEM ON WWW

Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARl) has been receiving Terra and Aqua MODIS data at ground station of Daejeon since July 2002. MODIS data can cover whole East Asia including the Korean Peninsula, Japan and The East China each almost scene and is monitoring ocean, atmosphere and land. By this time, over two thousand scenes have been archived including Terra and Aqua in the storage system and they occupied about over 10TB of disk space. In this study, Web-Downloading system of MODIS data developed on WWW is including following main functions: spectral subset (250m, 500m, 1000m chnnels) Level 1B data of HDF format, result display, ftp download and statistic viewer etc. Users using this system can directly download MODIS data on WWW with a few input parameters. This system is available via the Internet URL after October 2005 on the following, 'http://webmodis.kari.re.kr/'