I'm still being harassed about updating my driver to the older version.

Starting to get on my last nerve.
Another note,

been working with Modis MOD09 images. Seems like an impossible task to get a new good quality texture of the earth with this data. A lot of data to download. But I'm gonna take my time and keep updating areas with poor quality data. There were a couple of good thing that came of this project. A northern ice map / mask and another mask of Antarctica. Here are some images. The first is a raw mosaic without any mask. The next is a mask I used on it. A combination of data from the spec map form SWBD data, GLFC Water Mask, and the state band from the MOD09 images which is what the northern ice mask was created with. Eventually I'm gonna use the SRTM height data to create a continental and island mask. That will be combined with a mask / map of Antarctica derived from zero values at sea level. This is a file called ramp200dem_osu_v2.bin.gz This is a citation at the site that acknowledges the data contributors.
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Liu, H., K. Jezek, B. Li, and Z. Zhao. 2001. Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model Version 2. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0082.htmlIt is a 200 meter map and I'm gonna combine it with SRTM-3 data to create the land mask and also a height map to generate a new normalmap.
Here the MOD09 mosaic from an 8 day composite release for day 185, 2012. Most of the files were downloaded from the USGS using Earth Explorer. They are the NASA LPDAAC Collections, Land Surface Reflectance Data set.
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This the mask I used described above. A combination of snow and ice flags, and a flag for cloud cover from the MOD09 files. It also used the specmap produced with data from the SWBD and GLFC Watermask. Antarctica is from the SRTM map used for some time for everybody's normal maps.
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The result from using above mask. I added the color value the BMNG used for deep oceans. The actual rgb of Antarcticais data from day 355, 2009, using MOD09GA daily level 2 lite files.
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Here is the new mask I'm working on using Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model Version 2 and the MOD09A1 files using the 500 meter state band. A 16 bit file with flags for fire/smoke, ice/snow, clouds, aerosol quality, etc.
Notice the difference in Antarctica.Attachment:
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