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Description

The Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Vegetation Indices (MOD13Q1) Version 6.1 data are generated every 16 days at 250 meter (m) spatial resolution as a Level 3 product. The MOD13Q1 product provides two primary vegetation layers. The first is the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) which is referred to as the continuity index to the existing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (NOAA-AVHRR) derived NDVI. The second vegetation layer is the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), which has improved sensitivity over high biomass regions. The algorithm chooses the best available pixel value from all the acquisitions from the 16 day period. The criteria used is low clouds, low view angle, and the highest NDVI/EVI value.

Along with the vegetation layers and the two quality layers, the HDF file will have MODIS reflectance bands 1 (red), 2 (near-infrared), 3 (blue), and 7 (mid-infrared), as well as four observation layers.

Known Issues

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6.1 vegetation indices 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
250 Meters x 250 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
MODIS Sinusoidal Tiling System
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-18 to Present
Temporal Resolution
16 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
C1748066515-LPCLOUD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
175424
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Vegetation Index ,
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) ,
Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)

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

Didan, K. (2021). MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250m SIN Grid V061 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD13Q1.061 Date Accessed: 2026-05-06

File Naming Convention

MOD13Q1.A2025193.h31v08.061.2025209132825.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD13Q1) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2025193), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h31v08), the Version of the data collection (061), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2025209132825), 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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Global patterns and drivers of post-fire vegetation productivity recovery Xu, Hongtao, Chen, Hans W., Chen, Deliang, Wang, Yingping, Yue, Xu, He, Bin, Guo, Lanlan, Yuan, Wenping, Zhong, Ziqian, Huang, Ling, Zheng, Fei, Li, Tiewei, He, Xiangqi Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area
Global expansion of wildland-urban interface (WUI) and WUI fires: insights from a multiyear worldwide unified database (WUWUI) Tang, Wenfu, He, Cenlin, Emmons, Louisa, Zhang, Junzhe Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Burned Area
Global Forest Plantations Mapping and Biomass Carbon Estimation Xu, Hongtao, He, Bin, Guo, Lanlan, Yan, Xing, Zeng, Yelu, Yuan, Wenping, Zhong, Ziqian, Tang, Rui, Yang, Yang, Liu, Huiming, Chen, Yaning Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Mapping of high-resolution daily particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration at the city level through a machine learning-based downscaling approach Nguyen, Phuong D. M., Phan, An H., Ngo, Truong X., Ho, Bang Q., Pham, Tran Vu, Nguyen, Thanh T. N. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Mapping soil suitability using phenological information derived from Ismaili, Maryem, Krimissa, Samira, Namous, Mustapha, Abdelrahman, Kamal, Boudhar, Abdelghani, Edahbi, Mohamed, Lebrini, Youssef, Htitiou, Abdelaziz, Maimouni, Soufiane, Benabdelouhab, Tarik Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Mapping specific groundwater nitrate concentrations from spatial data using machine learning: A case study of chongqing, China Liang, Yuanyi, Zhang, Xingjun, Gan, Lin, Chen, Si, Zhao, Shandao, Ding, Jihui, Kang, Wulue, Yang, Han Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Perspectives on modifiable spatiotemporal unit problems in remote sensing of agriculture: evaluating rice production in Vietnam and tools for analysis Peter, Brad G., Messina, Joseph P., Breeze, Victoria, Fung, Cadi Y., Kapoor, Abhinav, Fan, Peilei Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY
Phenotypic divergence of <i>Glossina morsitans</i> (Diptera: Muyobela, Jackson, Pirk, Christian W. W., Yusuf, Abdullahi A., Sole, Catherine L. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
PM2.5, vegetation density, and childhood cancer: a case-control registry-based study from Texas 1995-2011 Williams, Lindsay A, Haynes, David, Sample, Jeannette M, Lu, Zhanni, Hossaini, Ali, McGuinn, Laura A, Hoang, Thanh T, Lupo, Philip J, Scheurer, Michael E Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Potential of remote sensing techniques for integrated spatio-temporal monitoring and analysis of drought in the Sana River basin, Bosnia and Herzegovina Sabljic, Luka, Lukic, Tin, Markovic, Slobodan B., Bajic, Davorin Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Predicting Forest Evapotranspiration Shifts Under Diverse Climate Change Ji, Penghao, Su, Rong, Gao, Runhong Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux
Predicting malaria risk considering vector control interventions under Sadoine, Margaux L., Zinszer, Kate, Liu, Ying, Gachon, Philippe, Fournier, Michel, Dueymes, Guillaume, Dorsey, Grant, Llerena, Ana, Namuganga, Jane Frances, Nasri, Bouchra, Smargiassi, Audrey Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Paleohydrology repeating? Regional hydrological change may lead to an overflow and cross-mixing of an alkaline and a freshwater lake in East Africa Herrnegger, Mathew, Kray, Pierre, Stecher, Gabriel, Cherono Kiplangat, Nelly, Otieno, Dennis, Olang, Luke, Nicholson, Sharon E. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Outdoor artificial light-at-night and cardiometabolic disease risk: an urban perspective from the Catalan GCAT cohort study Palomar-Cros, Anna, Espinosa, Ana, Bara, Salva, Sanchez, Alejandro, Valentin, Antonia, Cirach, Marta, Castano-Vinyals, Gemma, Papantoniou, Kyriaki, Blay, Natalia, de Cid, Rafael, Romaguera, Dora, Kogevinas, Manolis, Harding, Barbara N Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Overcoming data gaps using integrated models to estimate migratory Farr, Matthew T., Zylstra, Erin R., Ries, Leslie, Zipkin, Elise F. Population Density, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Numerical Weather Forecast and Multi-Meteorological Data Fusion Based on Artificial Intelligence Yang, Yuanjian, Wang, Shuai, Zheng, Wenjian, Zhou, Shaohui, Duan, Zexia, Wang, Mengya Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY
NearTerm Forecasting of Terrestrial Mobile Species Distributions for Adaptive Management Under Extreme Weather Events Dobson, Rachel, Willis, Stephen G., Jennings, Stewart, Cheke, Robert A., Challinor, Andrew J., Dallimer, Martin Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Phenology
Microwave and optical satellite data fusion for meteorological drought monitoring in the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin Kaushik, Kavita, Pandey, Arvind Chandra, Dwivedi, Chandra Shekhar Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Landscape metrics as predictors of water-related ecosystem services: Insights from hydrological modeling and data-based approaches applied on the Arno River Basin, Italy el Jeitany, Jerome, Nussbaum, Madlene, Pacetti, Tommaso, Schroder, Boris, Caporali, Enrica Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Modeling canopy water content in the assessment for rainfall induced surface and groundwater nitrate contamination: The Bilate cropland sub watershed Assa, Bereket Geberselassie, Bhowmick, Anirudh, Cholo, Bisrat Elias Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Leopard density and determinants of space use in a farming landscape in South Africa J.E.T., McKaughan, P.A., Stephens, C., Lucas, N., Guichard-Kruger, F., Guichard-Kruger, R.A., Hill Population Density, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Modelling urban/rural fractions in low- and middle-income countries Wu, Yunhan, Wakefield, Jon Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Monitoring soil erosion in support of achieving SDGs: A special focus on rainfall variation and farming systems vulnerability Senanayake, Sumudu, Pradhan, Biswajeet, Wedathanthirige, Haritha, Alamri, Abdullah, Park, Hyuck-Jin Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Modern pollen-vegetation coverage relationships and its application for Holocene vegetation reconstructions in the central Tianshan Mountains Li, Xueyin, Sun, Aizhi, Yang, Yunpeng, Zhang, Dongliang, Wu, Shuangshuang Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover
Monitoring Changes in the Enhanced Vegetation Index to Inform the Management of Forests Rodriguez, Peter S., Schwantes, Amanda M., Gonzalez, Andrew, Fortin, Marie-Josee Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
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