Skip to main content

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.

Datasets

Datasets

View All Datasets
Filters
Dataset Temporal Extent Version Data State Processing Level Data Format Science Keywords
ISLSCP II GIMMS Monthly NDVI, 1981-2002 1981-07-01 to 2002-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Reflectance
ISLSCP II Global Gridded Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 1990 1990-01-01 to 1990-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Population Distribution
ISLSCP II Global Population of the World 1990-01-01 to 1995-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Population Size, Population Distribution
ISLSCP II Historical Croplands Cover, 1700-1992 1700-01-01 to 1992-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Albedo, Reflectance
ISLSCP II Historical Land Cover and Land Use, 1700-1990 1700-01-01 to 1990-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance
ISLSCP II IGBP DISCover and SiB Land Cover, 1992-1993 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Albedo, Albedo, Reflectance
ISLSCP II Leaf Area Index (LAI) from Field Measurements, 1932-2000 1932-01-01 to 2000-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 CSV Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance
ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) Albedo, 2002 2002-01-01 to 2002-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Reflectance, Albedo
ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) IGBP Land Cover, 2000-2001 2000-10-01 to 2001-10-01 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Use Classes, Vegetation Cover, Albedo
ISLSCP II Monthly Snow-Free Albedo, 1982-1998, and Background Soil Reflectance 1982-01-01 to 1998-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance
ISLSCP II NOAA 5-year Average Monthly Snow-free Albedo from AVHRR 1985-04-01 to 1991-03-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Albedo, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Plant Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance
ISLSCP II Potential Natural Vegetation Cover 1992-04-01 to 1993-04-01 1 COMPLETE 3 ASCII Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Deciduous Vegetation, Reflectance
ISLSCP II Snow-Free, Spatially Complete, 16 Day Albedo, 2002 2002-01-01 to 2002-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Reflectance, Albedo
LBA-ECO LC-02 Hot Pixel Fire Indicator Data for Tri-national MAP Region: 2003-2006 2003-01-01 to 2006-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 CSV Fire Occurrence, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
LBA-ECO LC-07 Amazon Floodplain Lake Chlorophyll from MODIS, Para, Brazil: 2002-2003 2002-04-01 to 2003-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Wetlands, Chlorophyll, Lakes/Reservoirs
LBA-ECO LC-15 Vegetation Cover Types from MODIS, 1-km, Amazon Basin: 2000-2001 2000-10-31 to 2001-12-09 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Land Use Classes, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
LBA-ECO LC-22 Field Validation of MODIS Deforestation Detection, Brazil, 2005 2005-03-17 to 2005-03-24 1 COMPLETE 3 multiple Forests, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
LBA-ECO LC-22 Land Cover from MODIS Vegetation Indices, Mato Grosso, Brazil 2000-09-01 to 2004-12-31 1 COMPLETE 4 GeoTIFF Vegetation Index
LBA-ECO LC-22 Post-deforestation Land Use, Mato Grosso, Brazil: 2001-2005 2001-08-01 to 2005-07-31 1 COMPLETE 3 Shapefile Deforestation
LBA-ECO LC-22 Vegetation Cover Types from MODIS, 500-m, South America: 2000-2001 2000-11-01 to 2001-11-30 1 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Land Use/Land Cover Classification
LBA-ECO LC-23 ASTER and MODIS Fire Data Comparison for Brazil: 2003-2004 2003-01-19 to 2004-02-07 1 COMPLETE 3 multiple Wildfires
LBA-ECO LC-23 Characterization of Vegetation Fire Dynamics for Brazil: 2001-2003 2001-01-01 to 2003-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 multiple Reflectance, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence
LBA-ECO LC-24 Forest Cover Map from MODIS, 500-m, South America: 2001 2001-01-01 to 2001-12-31 2 COMPLETE 3 GeoTIFF Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Use Classes, Vegetation Cover, Forests
LBA-ECO LC-31 Historical Land-Use in the Amazon: 1940-1995 1940-01-01 to 1995-12-31 1 COMPLETE 3 netCDF-3 Agricultural Lands, Land Use Classes
LBA-ECO LC-39 Modeled Carbon Flux from Deforestation, Mato Grosso, Brazil: 2000-2006 2000-10-01 to 2006-09-30 1 COMPLETE 4 multiple Vegetation Index, Fire Occurrence, Biomass, Carbon
You're viewing 250 of 1035

MODIS Data Tools

View All Data Tools
Filters
Tool Description Services
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
SHOWING 9 OF 9

Frequently Asked Questions

Earthdata Forum

Our online forum provides a space for users to browse thousands of FAQs about research needs, data, and data applications. You can also submit new questions for our experts to answer.

Submit Questions to Earthdata Forumand View Expert Responses

Earthdata
Forum