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MODIS Data Access and Tools

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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MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250m SIN Grid V061 2002-07-04 to Present 061 ACTIVE 3 HDF-EOS2 Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V006 2002-07-04 to 2023-02-25 006 DEPRECATED 3 HDF-EOS2 Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061 2002-07-04 to Present 061 ACTIVE 3 HDF-EOS2 Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices Monthly L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG V006 2002-07-01 to 2023-01-31 006 DEPRECATED 3 HDF-EOS2 Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices Monthly L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG V061 2002-07-01 to Present 061 ACTIVE 3 HDF-EOS2 Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices Monthly L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V006 2002-07-01 to 2023-01-31 006 DEPRECATED 3 HDF-EOS2 Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
MODIS/Aqua Vegetation Indices Monthly L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V061 2002-07-01 to Present 061 ACTIVE 3 HDF-EOS2 Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
MODIS/Aqua Water Reservoir 8-Day L3 Global V061 2002-07-04 to Present 061 ACTIVE 3 HDF-EOS2 Lakes/Reservoirs, Total Surface Water, Bed Elevation, WATER SURFACE HEIGHT
MODIS/Aqua Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V061 2002-07-01 to Present 061 ACTIVE 3 HDF-EOS2 Lakes/Reservoirs, Total Surface Water, Bed Elevation, WATER SURFACE HEIGHT
MODIS/Aqua+Terra Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 2021-03-01 to Present 6.1 ACTIVE 3 HDF-EOS Floods, Floods
MODIS/Aqua+Terra Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 1-day CS GeoTIFF 2021-03-15 to Present 6.1 ACTIVE 3 GeoTIFF Floods, Floods
MODIS/Aqua+Terra Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 1-day GeoTIFF 2021-03-15 to Present 6.1 ACTIVE 3 GeoTIFF Floods, Floods
MODIS/Aqua+Terra Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 2-day GeoTIFF 2021-03-15 to Present 6.1 ACTIVE 3 GeoTIFF Floods, Floods
MODIS/Aqua+Terra Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 3-day GeoTIFF 2021-03-15 to Present 6.1 ACTIVE 3 GeoTIFF Floods, Floods
MODIS-based GPP, PAR, fC4, and SANIRv estimates from SLOPE for CONUS, 2000-2019 2000-01-01 to 2020-01-01 1 COMPLETE 4 GeoTIFF Reflectance, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plant Characteristics, REFLECTED INFRARED, Gross Primary Production (gpp)
MODIS_CR_Equal_Angle_3h 2002-12-31 to 2020-12-31 1.0 COMPLETE 3 Clouds, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Top Pressure
MODIS_CR_Equal_Angle_Daily 2002-12-31 to 2020-12-31 1.0 COMPLETE 3 Clouds, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Top Pressure
MODIS_CR_Equal_Area_3h 2002-12-31 to 2020-12-31 1.0 COMPLETE 3 Clouds, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Top Pressure
MODIS-derived Aggregate, Woody and Herbaceous Leaf Area Index for Africa, 2002-2022 2002-07-05 to 2022-07-29 1 COMPLETE 3 netCDF-4 Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
MODIS-derived Annual Vegetation Resilience, 2000-2019 2000-01-01 to 2019-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 COG DISTURBANCE, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
MODIS-derived Vegetation and Albedo Parameters for Agroecosystem-Climate Modeling 2003-01-01 to 2010-12-31 1 COMPLETE 4 netCDF-4 classic Leaf Characteristics, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Albedo, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
MODIS/Terra 1 degree Gridded MODIS Active Fire Product V005 (MOD14CM1) 2000-11-01 to 2015-12-31 005 COMPLETE 3 Fire Occurrence
MODIS/Terra Aerosol 5-Min L2 Swath 10km 2000-02-24 to Present 6.1 ACTIVE 2 HDF-EOS Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance
MODIS/Terra Aerosol 5-Min L2 Swath 10km - NRT 2017-10-11 6.1NRT ACTIVE 2 HDF-EOS Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance
MODIS/Terra Aerosol 5-Min L2 Swath 3km 2000-02-24 to Present 6.1 ACTIVE 2 HDF-EOS Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance

MODIS Data Tools

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AppEEARS The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers 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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