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Description

The MYD11A2 Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MYD11A2 Version 6.1 data product.

The MYD11A2 Version 6 product provides an average 8-day per-pixel Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) with a 1 kilometer (km) spatial resolution in a 1,200 by 1,200 km grid. Each pixel value in the MYD11A2 is a simple average of all the corresponding MYD11A1 LST pixels collected within that 8-day period. The 8-day compositing period was chosen because twice that period is the exact ground track repeat period of the Terra and Aqua platforms. Provided along with the daytime and nighttime surface temperature bands are associated quality control assessments, observation times, view zenith angles, and clear-sky coverages along with bands 31 and 32 emissivities from land cover types.

Known Issues

For complete information about known issues please refer to the MODIS/VIIRS Land Quality Assessment website.

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6 land surface temperature and emissivity data products: (1) Removed cloud-contaminated LSTs from Level 2 and Level 3 LST products, (2) Updated the coefficient look-up table (LUT) for the split-window algorithm with comprehensive regression analysis of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) simulation data in bands 31 and 32 over wide ranges of surface and atmospheric conditions, especially extending the upper boundary for (LST – Ts-air) in arid and semi-arid regions. Increased the overlap between various sub-ranges to reduce the sensitivity of the algorithm to uncertainties in the input data (i.e., column water vapor and air surface temperature from MYD07), (3) Made minor adjustments in the classification-based surface emissivity values, especially for bare soil and rocks land cover types, (4) Tuned the day/night algorithm by adjusting weights to improve performance in desert regions where the incorporated split-window algorithm may not work well, and (5) Generated new gridded LST&E products with a 6 km spatial resolution for 8-day (MYD11B2) and monthly (MYD11B3) intervals in response to user community requests.

Product Summary

Platforms
AQUA
Instruments
MODIS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
1000 Meters x 1000 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
MODIS Sinusoidal Tiling System
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2002-07-04 to 2023-02-25
Temporal Resolution
8 Day
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) ,
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/MODAPS)
Concept ID
C2763370206-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Land Surface Temperature ,
Emissivity

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Wan, Z., Hook, S., & Hulley, G. (2015). MYD11A2 MODIS/Aqua Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity 8-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MYD11A2.006 Date Accessed: 2026-05-17

File Naming Convention

MYD11A2.A2002273.h22v15.006.2015161034509.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MYD11A2) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2002273), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h22v15), the Version of the data collection (006), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2015161034509), and the Data Format (hdf).

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Comparisons of the Urbanization Effect on Heat Stress Changes in Li, Wen, Chao, Liya, Si, Peng, Zhang, Huixian, Li, Qingxiang Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Satellite evidence for small biophysical effects of transport infrastructure in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Zhou, Decheng, Zhang, Liangxia, Huang, Lin, Fan, Jiangwen, Li, Yuzhe, Zhang, Haiyan Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Reflectance, Terrain Elevation, RADAR IMAGERY, Topographical Relief Maps
The biophysical effects of potential changes in irrigated crops on diurnal land surface temperature in Northeast China Li, Xintao, Hai, Quansheng, Xia, Ke, Vandansambuu, Battsengel, Bao, Yuhai Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Study of the improvement of the multifractal spatial downscaling by the Zhang, Wei, Ji, Chenjia, Zheng, Shengjie, Loaiciga, Hugo A., Li, Wenkai, Sun, Xiaona Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Spatiotemporal patterns of land surface temperature and their response to land cover change: A case study in Sichuan Basin Yan, Dongming, Yu, Huan, Xiang, Qing, Xu, Xiaoyu Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Spatial Optimization Methods for Malaria Risk Mapping in Sub-Saharan Morlighem, Camille, Chaiban, Celia, Georganos, Stefanos, Brousse, Oscar, van Lipzig, Nicole P. M., Wolff, Eleonore, Dujardin, Sebastien, Linard, Catherine Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Satellite-based land surface temperature and soil moisture observations accurately predict soil respiration in temperate deciduous and coniferous forests Weiland, Lelia, Rogers, Cheryl A., Sothe, Camile, Arain, M. Altaf, Gonsamo, Alemu Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Surface Radiative Properties
Soil organic carbon content increase in the east and south of China is accompanied by soil acidification Sun, Xiao-Lin, Minasny, Budiman, Wu, Yun-Jin, Wang, Hui-Li, Fan, Xiao-Hui, Zhang, Gan-Lin Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Remotely Sensed Agriculture Drought Indices for Assessing the Impact on Khlif, Manel, Escorihuela, Maria Jose, Chahbi Bellakanji, Aicha, Paolini, Giovanni, Lili Chabaane, Zohra Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Remotely Sensed Agroclimatic Classification and Zoning in Water-Limited Mediterranean Areas towards Sustainable Agriculture Faraslis, Ioannis, Dalezios, Nicolas R., Alpanakis, Nicolas, Tziatzios, Georgios A., Spiliotopoulos, Marios, Sakellariou, Stavros, Sidiropoulos, Pantelis, Dercas, Nicholas, Dominguez, Alfonso, Martinez-Lopez, Jose Antonio, Lopez-Urrea, Ramon, Karam, Fadi, Amami, Hacib, Nciri, Radhouan Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux
Vegetation structural shift tells environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau over 40 years Wang, Yanfen, Xue, Kai, Hu, Ronghai, Ding, Boyang, Zeng, Hong, Li, Ruijin, Xu, Bin, Pang, Zhe, Song, Xiaoning, Li, Congjia, Du, Jianqing, Yang, Xiuchun, Zhang, Zelin, Hao, Yanbin, Cui, Xiaoyong, Guo, Ke, Gao, Qingzhu, Zhang, Yangjian, Zhu, Juntao, Sun, Jian, Li, Yaoming, Jiang, Lili, Zhou, Huakun, Luo, Caiyun, Zhang, Zhenhua, Gao, Qingbo, Chen, Shilong, Ji, Baoming, Xu, Xingliang, Chen, Huai, Li, Qi, Zhao, Liang, Xu, Shixiao, Liu, Yali, Hu, Linyong, Wu, Jianshuang, Yang, Qien, Dong, Shikui, He, Jinsheng, Zhao, Xinquan, Wang, Shiping, Piao, Shilong, Yu, Guirui, Fu, Bojie Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Upscaling Wetland Methane Emissions From the FLUXNETCH4 Eddy Covariance Network (UpCH4 v1. 0): Model Development, Network Assessment, and Budget ... McNicol, Gavin, FluetChouinard, Etienne, Ouyang, Zutao, Knox, Sara, Zhang, Zhen, Aalto, Tuula, Bansal, Sheel, Chang, KuangYu, Chen, Min, Delwiche, Kyle, Feron, Sarah, Goeckede, Mathias, Liu, Jinxun, Malhotra, Avni, Melton, Joe R., Riley, William, Vargas, Rodrigo, Yuan, Kunxiaojia, Ying, Qing, Zhu, Qing, Alekseychik, Pavel, Aurela, Mika, Billesbach, David P., Campbell, David I., Chen, Jiquan, Chu, Housen, Desai, Ankur R., Euskirchen, Eugenie, Goodrich, Jordan, Griffis, Timothy, Helbig, Manuel, Hirano, Takashi, Iwata, Hiroki, Jurasinski, Gerald, King, John, Koebsch, Franziska, Kolka, Randall, Krauss, Ken, Lohila, Annalea, Mammarella, Ivan, Nilson, Mats, Noormets, Asko, Oechel, Walter, Peichl, Matthias, Sachs, Torsten, Sakabe, Ayaka, Schulze, Christopher, Sonnentag, Oliver, Sullivan, Ryan C., Tuittila, EevaStiina, Ueyama, Masahito, Vesala, Timo, Ward, Eric, Wille, Christian, Wong, Guan Xhuan, Zona, Donatella, WindhamMyers, Lisamarie, Poulter, Benjamin, Jackson, Robert B. Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Methane, Surface Water Processes/Measurements, Wetlands
Towards an Accurate and Reliable Downscaling Scheme for High-Spatial-Resolution Precipitation Data Zhu, Honglin, Liu, Huizeng, Zhou, Qiming, Cui, Aihong Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Crop production response to soil moisture and groundwater depletion in the Nile Basin based on multi-source data Nigatu, Zemede M., Fan, Dongming, You, Wei, Melesse, Assefa M., Pu, Lun, Yang, Xinchun, Wan, Xiangyu, Jiang, Zhongshan Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Ground Water, Emissivity, Reflectance
Design and implementation of an efficient and cost effective deep feature learning model for rice yield mapping Divakar, M. Sarith, Elayidom, M. Sudheep, Rajesh, R. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Reflectance
Evaluating maize yield response to fertilizer and soil in Mexico using ground and satellite approaches Campolo, Jake, Ortiz-Monasterio, Ivan, Guerena, David, Lobell, David B. Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Estimation of high-resolution precipitation using downscaled satellite Krishnan, Sooraj, Pradhan, Ankita, Indu, J. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain
Analyze the Impact of Weather Parameters for Crop Yield Prediction Using Deep Learning Patel, Pragneshkumar, Chaudhary, Sanjay, Parmar, Hasit Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Estimation of actual evapotranspiration using TDTM model and MODIS derived variables Ruiz-Alvarez, Marcos, Gomariz-Castillo, Francisco, Alonso-Sarria, Francisco, Lopez-Ballesteros, Ana Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Albedo, Anisotropy, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Characteristics, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance
Intraurban heterogeneity of space-time land surface temperature trends in six climate-diverse cities Lemoine-Rodriguez, Richard, Inostroza, Luis, Zepp, Harald Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Magnitudes and patterns of large-scale permafrost ground deformation revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Chen, Jie, Wu, Tonghua, Zou, Defu, Liu, Lin, Wu, Xiaodong, Gong, Wenyu, Zhu, Xiaofan, Li, Ren, Hao, Junming, Hu, Guojie, Pang, Qiangqiang, Zhang, Jing, Yang, Sizhong Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
An integrated assessment on the warming effects of urbanization and agriculture in highly developed urban agglomerations of China Yan, Zhangmei, Zhou, Decheng, Li, Yu, Zhang, Liangxia Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Albedo, Anisotropy, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps
A novel large-scale land degradation remote sensing index and its application in Three River Source Region Wen, Ye, Wang, Qiubing, Guo, Bing, Meng, Chao, Cai, Yumei, Xue, Haorun, Zhao, Huihui, Zang, Wenqian, Wei, Cuixia, Yu, Yang, Liu, Yifeng, Li, Jialin Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 20002020 He, Shaoyang, Zhang, Yongqiang, Ma, Ning, Tian, Jing, Kong, Dongdong, Liu, Changming Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Terrestrial Water Storage, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Emissivity, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
A framework to integrate innovations in invasion science for proactive van Rees, Charles B., Hand, Brian K., Carter, Sean C., Bargeron, Chuck, Cline, Timothy J., Daniel, Wesley, Ferrante, Jason A., Gaddis, Keith, Hunter, Margaret E., Jarnevich, Catherine S., McGeoch, Melodie A., Morisette, Jeffrey T., Neilson, Matthew E., Roy, Helen E., Rozance, Mary Ann, Sepulveda, Adam, Wallace, Rebekah D., Whited, Diane, Wilcox, Taylor, Kimball, John S., Luikart, Gordon Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
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