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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