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MODVI·v005·dataset

How green the land is, monthly (Terra, 1 deg)

MODIS/Terra Monthly Vegetation Indices Global 1x1 degree V005 (MODVI) at GES DISC
biosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 3
In plain English

What it measures. Monthly maps of how green the land is (vegetation greenness indexes) at a coarse 1-degree resolution worldwide, starting in 2000.

How it's made. Boiled down from MODIS Terra's finer monthly vegetation product onto a 1-degree grid, made to support land-surface and climate modeling research.

How & where you'd use it. Studying broad seasonal and year-to-year vegetation patterns at a scale convenient for climate models and large-region analysis.

What's measured

BIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › VEGETATION INDEXBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-02-01 → 2015-12-31
  • Measured byTerra (MODIS)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

The global monthly gridded MODIS vegetation indices product is derived from the standard 0.05 CMG MODIS Terra Vegetation Indices Monthly product MOD13C2 (Huete et al, 2002) collection-5. The product is generated for Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) program in supporting researches on the surface processes and climate modeling. The vegetation indices product is generated at 1x1 degree spatial resolution starting from 2000.

Get the data

modvi_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="MODVI",
    version="005",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from GES_DISC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.