Hydrological, data for a better understanding of water

Land Use

MODIS Land Cover Type (MCD12Q1)

MODIS Terra and Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly Global 500 m
Annual 500 m land cover with IGBP and other schemes

MODIS IGBP land cover (NASA GIBS)

Source: NASA / USGS
Resolution: 500 m
Time span: 2001–present
Access type: Download with free login
Formats: HDF-EOS
Coverage: Global land
Provider: search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?…

# Earthdata login in ~/.netrc:
# machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login USER password PASS
curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/modis-mcd12q1/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO --netrc -b ~/.urs_cookies -c ~/.urs_cookies

import earthaccess  # pip install earthaccess

earthaccess.login()
results = earthaccess.search_data(short_name="MCD12Q1", version="061",
                                  bounding_box=(-75, -20, -50, 5))
earthaccess.download(results, "data")

const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/modis-mcd12q1/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));

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