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Description

The Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Monthly(MOD11C3) Version 6.1 product provides monthly Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) values in a 0.05 degree (5,600 meters at the equator) latitude/longitude Climate Modeling Grid (CMG). A CMG granule is a geographic grid with 7,200 columns and 3,600 rows representing the entire globe. The LST&E values in the MOD11C3 product are derived by compositing and averaging the values from the corresponding month of MOD11C1 daily files. Each MOD11C3 product consists of the following layers for daytime and nighttime observations: LSTs, quality control assessments, observation times, view zenith angles, and number of clear-sky observations along with percentage of land in the grid and emissivities from bands 20, 22, 23, 29, 31, and 32.

Known Issues

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6.1 land surface temperature and emissivity data products: (1) Version 6.1 Level-1B (L1B) products have been improved by undergoing various calibration changes that include: changes to the response-versus-scan angle (RVS) approach that affects reflectance bands for Aqua and Terra MODIS, corrections to adjust for the optical crosstalk in Terra MODIS infrared (IR) bands, and corrections to the Terra MODIS forward look-up table (LUT) update for the period 2012 – 2017, and (2) A polarization correction has been applied to the L1B Reflective Solar Bands (RSB).

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
5600 Meters x 5600 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
MODIS Climate Modeling Grid (CMG)
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2000-02-01 to Present
Temporal Resolution
1 Month
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
C2565788897-LPCLOUD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
314
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Emissivity ,
Land Surface Temperature

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. (2021). MODIS/Terra Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Monthly L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG V061 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD11C3.061 Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

File Naming Convention

MOD11C3.A2025182.061.2025213154157.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD11C3) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2025182), the Version of the data collection (061), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2025213154157), and the Data Format (hdf).

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

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A novel retrieval model for soil salinity from CYGNSS: Algorithm and test in the Yellow River Delta Wang, Jundong, Yang, Ting, Zhu, Kangying, Shao, Changxiu, Zhu, Wanxue, Hou, Guanqun, Sun, Zhigang Reflectance, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Assessing risk factors for malaria and schistosomiasis among children in Misungwi, Tanzania, an area of co-endemicity: A mixed methods study Duguay, Claudia, Mosha, Jacklin F., Lukole, Eliud, Mangalu, Doris, Thickstun, Charles, Mallya, Elizabeth, Aziz, Tatu, Feng, Cindy, Protopopoff, Natacha, Mosha, Franklin, Manjurano, Alphaxard, Krentel, Alison, Kulkarni, Manisha A. Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Carbon intensity of global crude oil trading and market policy implications Dixit, Yash, El-Houjeiri, Hassan, Monfort, Jean-Christophe, Jing, Liang, Zhang, Yiqi, Littlefield, James, Long, Wennan, Falter, Christoph, Badahdah, Alhassan, Bergerson, Joule, Speth, Raymond L., Barrett, Steven R. H. Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Coherency and phase delay analyses between land cover and climate across Italy via the least-squares wavelet software Ghaderpour, Ebrahim, Mazzanti, Paolo, Mugnozza, Gabriele Scarascia, Bozzano, Francesca Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Precipitation, Rain, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow
Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature Su, Yongxian, Zhang, Chaoqun, Ciais, Philippe, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Cescatti, Alessandro, Shang, Jiali, Chen, Jing Ming, Liu, Jane, Wang, Ying-Ping, Yuan, Wenping, Peng, Shushi, Lee, Xuhui, Zhu, Zaichun, Fan, Lei, Liu, Xiaoping, Liu, Liyang, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Li, Yan, Ren, Jiashun, Yang, Xueqin, Chen, Xiuzhi Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux
Assessment of a multi-tiling energy budget approach in a land surface model, ORCHIDEE-MICT (r8205) Xi, Yi, Qiu, Chunjing, Zhang, Yuan, Zhu, Dan, Peng, Shushi, Hugelius, Gustaf, Chang, Jinfeng, Salmon, Elodie, Ciais, Philippe Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Albedo, Anisotropy, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Assessment of atmospheric emissivity models for clear-sky conditions Morales-Salinas, Luis, Ortega-Farias, Samuel, Riveros-Burgos, Camilo, Chavez, Jose L., Wang, Sufen, Tian, Fei, Carrasco-Benavides, Marcos, Neira-Roman, Jose, Lopez-Olivari, Rafael, Fuentes-Jaque, Guillermo Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Can plastic pollution contaminate loggerhead turtle nests? Evaluation of flame retardants (PBDEs) levels in the sand Sousa-Guedes, Diana, Cunha, Sara C., Fernandes, Jose O., Semedo, Diana, Sillero, Neftali, Marco, Adolfo, Bessa, Filipa Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Differential shortstopping behaviour in Whooping Cranes: Habitat or social learning? Mendgen, Philipp, Converse, Sarah J., Pearse, Aaron T., Teitelbaum, Claire S., Mueller, Thomas Land Use/Land Cover, Anthropogenic/Human Influenced Ecosystems, Sustainability, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
The effect of extreme weather events on child nutrition and health Amondo, Emily Injete, Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel, Mirzabaev, Alisher Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
A Collaborative Platform Supporting Distributed Teams in Visualization and Analysis of Infectious Disease Data Vogtle, Florian, Haddawy, Peter, Yin, Myat Su, Barkowsky, Thomas, Bicout, Dominique, Prachyabrued, Mores, Lawpoolsri, Saranath Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Modelling the West Nile virus force of infection in the European human population Marini, Giovanni, Pugliese, Andrea, Wint, William, Alexander, Neil S., Rizzoli, Annapaola, Rosa, Roberto Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Monitoring post-fire recovery of various vegetation biomes using multi-wavelength satellite remote sensing Bousquet, Emma, Mialon, Arnaud, Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio, Mermoz, Stephane, Kerr, Yann Vegetation Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Skin Temperature, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Freeze/thaw onset detection combining SMAP and ASCAT data over Alaska: A machine learning approach Zhong, Wen, Yuan, Qiangqiang, Liu, Tingting, Yue, Linwei Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Environmental factors driving fine-scale ixodid tick abundance patterns Peralbo-Moreno, Alfonso, Baz-Flores, Sara, Cuadrado-Matias, Raul, Barroso, Patricia, Triguero-Ocana, Roxana, Jimenez-Ruiz, Saul, Herraiz, Cesar, Ruiz-Rodriguez, Carmen, Acevedo, Pelayo, Ruiz-Fons, Francisco Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Exploring the Individualized Effect of Climatic Drivers on MODIS Net Li, Luyi, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Zhang, Guo, Duan, Kai, Liu, Bingjun, Cai, Xitian Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Wind Speed, Rain, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Cover, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Emissivity, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY
Exploring the potential of spatially downscaled solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to monitor drought effects on gross primary production in winter wheat Shen, Qiu, Lin, Jingyu, Yang, Jianhua, Zhao, Wenhui, Wu, Jianjun Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Forest fire risk zone mapping of Aalital Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura District, Nepal Subedi, Prajwol Babu, Ayer, Keshav, Miya, Mahamad Sayab, Parajuli, Bhawana, Sharma, Barsha Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Forest Fragmentation and Fires in the Eastern Brazilian AmazonMaranhao State, Brazil Silva-Junior, Celso H. L., Buna, Arisson T. M., Bezerra, Denilson S., Costa, Ozeas S., Santos, Adriano L., Basson, Lidielze O. D., Santos, Andre L. S., Alvarado, Swanni T., Almeida, Catherine T., Freire, Ana T. G., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Celentano, Danielle, Silva, Fabricio B., Pinheiro, Maria S. S., Amaral, Silvana, Kampel, Milton, Vedovato, Laura B., Anderson, Liana O., Aragao, Luiz E. O. C. Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Health gender gap in Uganda: do weather effects and water play a role? Amondo, Emily Injete, Kirui, Oliver K., Mirzabaev, Alisher Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Land surface temperature based soil moisture dynamics modeling for Chinese mainland Li, Jiale, Li, Yu, Zhao, Quanhua Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Reduced complexity models for regional aquatic habitat suitability Goodrum, Gregory C., Null, Sarah E. Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Assessment of cloudbursts, extreme rainfall and vulnerable regions in the Upper Ganga basin, Uttarakhand, India Mishra, Prabhash K., Thayyen, Renoj J., Singh, Hemant, Das, Swagatam, Nema, Manish K., Kumar, Pradeep Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Bioenergy crop production potential and carbon mitigation from marginal and degraded lands of India Edrisi, Sheikh Adil, Dubey, Pradeep Kumar, Chaturvedi, Rajiv Kumar, Abhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Analysing the relationship between drought and soil erosion using vegetation health index and RUSLE models in Godavari middle sub-basin, India Masroor, Md, Sajjad, Haroon, Rehman, Sufia, Singh, Roshani, Hibjur Rahaman, Md, Sahana, Mehebub, Ahmed, Raihan, Avtar, Ram RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Quantifying the contribution of diminishing green spaces and urban sprawl to urban heat island effect in a rapidly urbanizing metropolitan city of Pakistan Arshad, Salman, Ahmad, Sajid Rashid, Abbas, Sawaid, Asharf, Ather, Siddiqui, Nadia Asad, Islam, Zia ul Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Remote sensing products validated by flux tower data in Amazon Rain Forest Paca, Victor Hugo da Motta, Espinoza-Davalos, Gonzalo E., da Silva, Rodrigo, Tapajos, Raphael, dos Santos Gaspar, Avner Brasileiro Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
The Influence of Bare Ground Thermal Roughness Length Parameterization on the Simulation of NearSurface Air and Skin Temperatures Over the Tibetan Plateau Zhou, Xu, Yang, Kun, Jiang, Yaozhi, Sun, Jing, Chen, Yingying, Li, Xin, Li, Jianhui, Shi, Jiancheng Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Temperature lapse rate estimation and snowmelt runoff simulation in a high-altitude basin Zhao, Keke, Peng, Dingzhi, Gu, Yu, Luo, Xiaoyu, Pang, Bo, Zhu, Zhongfan Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Unveiling the increasingly altered patterns of wetland ecosystem Aquino, Diego Sebastian, GavierPizarro, Gregorio I., Quintana, Ruben Dario Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Trends in land surface temperature and its drivers over the High Mountain Asia Rani, Seema, Mal, Suraj Population Estimates, Socioeconomics, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Urban Warming of the Two Most Populated Cities in the Canadian Province Ejiagha, Ifeanyi R., Ahmed, M. Razu, Dewan, Ashraf, Gupta, Anil, Rangelova, Elena, Hassan, Quazi K. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
A copula model integrating atmospheric moisture demand and supply for vegetation vulnerability mapping Won, Jeongeun, Seo, Jiyu, Kim, Sangdan Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Modeling relationship between land surface temperature anomaly and environmental factors using GEE and Giovanni Jamali, Ali Akbar, Ghorbani Kalkhajeh, Reza, Randhir, Timothy O., He, Songtang Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Long-term variations in actual evapotranspiration over the Tibetan Plateau Han, Cunbo, Ma, Yaoming, Wang, Binbin, Zhong, Lei, Ma, Weiqiang, Chen, Xuelong, Su, Zhongbo Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Reflectance, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Non-monotonic vegetation activity trends in the Lower Delta of the Parana River: Masking evidence of wetland degradation? Aquino, Diego Sebastian, Sica, Yanina Vanesa, Quintana, Ruben Dario, Gavier-Pizarro, Gregorio Total Surface Precipitation Rate, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications Munoz-Sabater, Joaquin, Dutra, Emanuel, Agusti-Panareda, Anna, Albergel, Clement, Arduini, Gabriele, Balsamo, Gianpaolo, Boussetta, Souhail, Choulga, Margarita, Harrigan, Shaun, Hersbach, Hans, Martens, Brecht, Miralles, Diego G., Piles, Maria, Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio J., Zsoter, Ervin, Buontempo, Carlo, Thepaut, Jean-Noel Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Effects of mosaic representation of land use/land cover on skin temperature and energy Fluxes in Noah-MP Land Surface Model Over China Zhang, Guo, Li, Jianduo, Zhou, Guangsheng, Cai, Xitian, Gao, Wenhua, Peng, Xindong, Chen, Yueli Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Evaluation of comprehensive monthly-gridded methane emissions from natural and anthropogenic sources in China Gong, Shiyao, Shi, Yusheng Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Enhanced surface urban heat islands due to divergent urban-rural greening trends Chen, Chi, Li, Dan, Keenan, Trevor F Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Population Size
Drought Resilience Debt Drives NPP Decline in the Amazon Forest MachadoSilva, Fausto, Peres, Leonardo F., Gouveia, Celia M., EnrichPrast, Alex, Peixoto, Roberta B., Pereira, Jose M. C., Marotta, Humberto, Fernandes, Pedro J. F., Libonati, Renata Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Disentangling the effects of hydro-climatic factors and land use intensification on wetland vegetation dynamics in the Lower Delta of the Parana River Aquino, Diego Sebastian, Gavier-Pizarro, Gregorio, Quintana, Ruben Dario Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Identification of aerosol pollution hotspots in Jiangsu province of China Wang, Yu, Ali, Md. Arfan, Bilal, Muhammad, Qiu, Zhongfeng, Ke, Song, Almazroui, Mansour, Islam, Md. Monirul, Zhang, Yuanzhi Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Improving the spatial resolution of grace-derived terrestrial water storage changes in small areas using the machine learning spatial downscaling method Chen, Zhiwei, Zheng, Wei, Yin, Wenjie, Li, Xiaoping, Zhang, Gangqiang, Zhang, Jing Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Photosynthesis, Primary Production
Land surface temperature from GOES-East and GOES-West Chen, Wen, Pinker, Rachel T., Ma, Yingtao, Hulley, Glynn, Borbas, Eva, Islam, Tanvir, Cawse-Nicholson, Kerry-A., Hook, Simon, Hain, Chris, Basara, Jeff Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Predicting species distributions and community composition using satellite remote sensing predictors Pinto-Ledezma, Jesus N., Cavender-Bares, Jeannine Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Population genetic structure of the malaria vector Anopheles minimus in Thailand based on mitochondrial DNA markers Bunmee, Kamonchanok, Thaenkham, Urusa, Saralamba, Naowarat, Ponlawat, Alongkot, Zhong, Daibin, Cui, Liwang, Sattabongkot, Jetsumon, Sriwichai, Patchara Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
An improved global remote-sensing-based surface soil moisture (RSSSM) dataset covering 20032018 Chen, Yongzhe, Feng, Xiaoming, Fu, Bojie Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Vegetation Index, Landscape Patterns, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain
Climate and Land Cover Trends Affecting Freshwater Inputs to a Fjord in Northwestern Patagonia Leon-Munoz, Jorge, Aguayo, Rodrigo, Marce, Rafael, Catalan, Nuria, Woelfl, Stefan, Nimptsch, Jorge, Arismendi, Ivan, Contreras, Camila, Soto, Doris, Miranda, Alejandro Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Assessment of snow cover variability and its sensitivity to hydrometeorological factors in the Karakoram and Himalayan region Dharpure, Jaydeo K., Goswami, Ajanta, Patel, Akansha, Kulkarni, Anil V., Snehmani Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, RADAR IMAGERY
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