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Data collected by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) are integral for research of Earth's physical properties. Explore MODIS datasets and learn more about relevant data tools.

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Global Annual PM2.5 Grids from MODIS, MISR, SeaWiFS and VIIRS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), 1998-2022, V5.GL.04 1998-01-01 to 2022-12-31 5.04 COMPLETE 4 GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, netCDF-4 Particulate Matter, Particulates, Sustainability, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl
Global Fire Atlas with Characteristics of Individual Fires, 2003-2016 2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31 1 COMPLETE 4 multiple Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 4.1 (GFEDv4) 1995-06-01 to 2016-12-31 4.1 COMPLETE 4 multiple Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds
Global Food Security Support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Crop Dominance 2010 Global 1 km V001 2007-01-01 to 2012-12-31 001 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Vegetation Cover, Cropland
Global Food Security Support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Crop Mask 2010 Global 1 km V001 2007-01-01 to 2012-12-31 001 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Vegetation Cover, Cropland
Global Forest Cover Change Forest Cover Change Multi-Year Global 30m V001 1990-01-01 to 2004-12-31 001 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Forest Harvesting and Engineering
Global Forest Cover Change Surface Reflectance Estimates Multi-Year Global 30m V001 1984-03-12 to 2011-12-25 001 COMPLETE 2 GeoTIFF Reflectance
Global Forest Cover Change Tree Cover Multi-Year Global 30m V003 2000-01-01 to 2015-12-31 003 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Forest Management
Global Forest Cover Change Water Cover 2000 Global 30m V001 1999-06-29 to 2003-01-14 001 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Total Surface Water
Global MODIS and FLUXNET-derived Daily Gross Primary Production, V2 2000-03-01 to 2020-08-01 2 COMPLETE 3 netCDF-4 classic Primary Production, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Gross Primary Production (gpp), Reflectance
Global Monthly Mean Leaf Area Index Climatology, 1981-2015 1981-08-01 to 2015-08-31 1 COMPLETE 3 netCDF-4 classic Leaf Area Index (LAI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Greenness Trends and Carbon Stocks of Mangrove Forests Across Mexico, 2001-2015 2001-01-01 to 2015-12-31 1 COMPLETE 4 multiple Estuary, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Coastal, Soil Organic Carbon (SOC), Land Use/Land Cover
Gross Primary Production Maps of Tidal Wetlands across Conterminous USA, 2000-2019 2000-03-05 to 2019-11-17 1 COMPLETE 4 GeoTIFF Wetlands, Wetlands, Wetlands, Coastal, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Intertidal Zone
High Mountain Asia 1 km MODIS-AIRS Gap-Filled Ground Temperatures and Permafrost Probability Maps, 2003-2016 V001 2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31 1 COMPLETE 4 netCDF-4 Land Surface Temperature, Permafrost, Permafrost Temperature
High Mountain Asia 12 km Modeled Estimates of Aerosol Transport, Chemistry, and Deposition Reanalysis, 2003-2019 V001 2003-01-01 to 2019-08-31 1 COMPLETE 4 netCDF-4 classic Aerosol Concentration, Black Carbon, Deposition, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation
High Mountain Asia MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth V001 2000-02-01 to 2019-03-31 1 COMPLETE 4 ASCII Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent
High Mountain Asia UCLA Daily Snow Reanalysis V001 1999-10-01 to 2017-09-30 1 COMPLETE 4 netCDF-4 Albedo, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent
High Resolution Global Contiguous SIF Estimates from OCO-2 SIF and MODIS, Version 2 2014-09-01 to 2020-07-31 2 COMPLETE 3 netCDF-4 classic Solar Induced Fluorescence, Chlorophyll, Primary Production, Leaf Characteristics
High Resolution Land Cover-Specific Solar-Induced Fluorescence, Midwestern USA, 2018 2018-05-02 to 2018-09-23 1 COMPLETE 3 netCDF-4 Photosynthesis, Chlorophyll, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Solar Induced Fluorescence, Canopy Transmittance, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Cover
India Annual Winter Cropped Area, 2001-2016 2001-03-31 to 2016-03-31 1.0 COMPLETE 4 GeoTIFF, netCDF-4, PDF, PNG, WMS Agriculture Production, Land Use/Land Cover
ISLSCP II AVHRR Albedo and BRDF, 1995 1995-02-01 to 1995-07-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Albedo, Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Land Use/Land Cover, Reflectance
ISLSCP II C4 Vegetation Percentage 1993-01-01 to 1998-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 ASCII Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance
ISLSCP II Continuous Fields of Vegetation Cover, 1992-1993 1992-04-01 to 1993-05-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance, Vegetation Index
ISLSCP II Ecosystem Rooting Depths 1995-02-01 to 1995-07-31 1 COMPLETE 3 ASCII Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance
ISLSCP II FASIR-adjusted NDVI, 1982-1998 1982-01-01 to 1998-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance
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MODIS Data Tools

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AppEEARS The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization
FIRMS The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. Access, Visualization
FLOOD The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, Visualization
HiTIDE Use HiTIDE to subset and download popular Level 2 (swath) datasets. Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Downloading
LDOPE Access a range of software tools designed to manipulate, visualize, and analyze MODIS and VIIRS data. Analysis, Visualization
Similarity Search Similarity Search uses machine learning to make it easier for scientists to comb through millions of images and locate sets of similar examples. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
SOTO State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
TESViS The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. Visualization, Subsetting
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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