MOD11C1: MODIS Terra Daily Land Surface Temperature Global Grid

Daily global land surface temperature and emissivity data derived from MODIS Terra satellite observations. The dataset provides daytime and nighttime values on a 0.05-degree Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) with 7,200 columns and 3,600 rows covering the entire globe. Production of Version 6 was discontinued on July 31, 2023, and users are directed to Version 6.1.

Use Cases

• Modeling global climate patterns based on daily land surface temperature grids.
• Analyzing diurnal temperature variations based on separate daytime and nighttime observations.
• Assessing surface emissivity for different land cover types based on emissivity values from multiple spectral bands.
• Monitoring thermal properties of arid and semi-arid regions based on algorithm improvements for desert areas.

Strengths

• Provides global coverage with a 0.05-degree (approximately 5,600 meters at the equator) spatial resolution.
• Includes separate layers for daytime and nighttime observations, quality control assessments, observation times, and view zenith angles.
• Algorithm improvements include removal of cloud-contaminated data and tuning for performance in desert regions.

Limitations

• The Version 6 product has been decommissioned; users must migrate to Version 6.1.
• Production of V6 Terra MODIS LST&E data was discontinued on November 16, 2022 due to significant loss of data retrieval.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Derived from MOD11B1 product via satellite remote sensing.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 00:16:17.466294; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global