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.
Five classification schemes per year, including IGBP (17 classes) and a plant functional type layer used by many land-surface models. The long consistent record makes it the usual choice for land-cover change in hydrological modelling.
- Source
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Geological Survey
- Resolution
- 500 m
- Data type
- Raster
- Time span
- 2001–present
- Temporal
- Annual
- Access type
- Download with free login · Free NASA Earthdata login
- Formats
- HDF-EOS
- Coverage
- Global land (-180, -90, 180, 90)
- Licence
- Public domain (U.S. Government work)
- DOI
- 10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061
- Provider page
- lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mcd12q1v061/
Cite as. Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061
Access
cmrMCD12Q1 v061 granules (latest first) from NASA Earthdata
Granules found through NASA's Common Metadata Repository (collection MCD12Q1 v061). Downloads need a free Earthdata login.
# 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_cookiesimport 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));Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record
