MOD11A2.061 Terra Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity 8-Day Global 1km

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The MOD11A2 V6.1 product provides an average 8-day land surface temperature (LST) in a 1200 x 1200 kilometer grid.
Data is available from 2000-02-18 to 2025-10-08 with an 8-day cadence.
The dataset includes bands for day and night land surface temperature, quality indicators, view time and angle, emissivity, and clear sky conditions.
MODIS data and products acquired through the LP DAAC have no restrictions on subsequent use, sale, or redistribution.

Dataset Availability: 2000-02-18T00:00:00Z–2025-10-08T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider: NASA LP DAAC at the USGS EROS Center

Cadence: 8 Days
Tags: 8-day climate emissivity global lst mod11a2 modis nasa surface-temperature terra usgs

Description

The MOD11A2 V6.1 product provides an average 8-day land surface temperature (LST) in a 1200 x 1200 kilometer grid. Each pixel value in MOD11A2 is a simple average of all the corresponding MOD11A1 LST pixels collected within that 8 day period. The MOD11A2 does a simple averaging of all daily LST values, without any filtering for specific QA bits. Each of the MOD11A2 QA values are set based on what majority of input daily QA values are for any given pixel.

The 8 day compositing period was chosen because twice that period is the exact ground track repeat period of the Terra and Aqua platforms. In this product, along with both the day- and night-time surface temperature bands and their quality indicator (QC) layers, are also MODIS bands 31 and 32 and eight observation layers.

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Bands

Pixel Size
1000 meters

Bands

Name	Units	Min	Max	Scale	Offset	Pixel Size	Description
`LST_Day_1km`	K	7500	65535	0.02		meters	Day land surface temperature
`QC_Day`						meters	Daytime LST quality indicators
Bitmask for QC_Day Bits 0-1: Mandatory QA flags 0: Pixel produced, good quality, not necessary to examine more detailed QA 1: Pixel produced, unreliable or unquantifiable quality, recommend examination of more detailed QA 2: Pixel not produced due to cloud effects 3: Pixel not produced primarily due to reasons other than cloud (such as ocean pixel, poor input data) Bits 2-3: Data quality flag 0: Good data quality 1: Other quality data 2: TBD 3: TBD Bits 4-5: Emissivity error flag 0: Average emissivity error <= 0.01 1: Average emissivity error <= 0.02 2: Average emissivity error <= 0.04 3: Average emissivity error > 0.04 Bits 6-7: LST error flag 0: Average LST error <= 1K 1: Average LST error <= 2K 2: Average LST error <= 3K 3: Average LST error > 3K
`Day_view_time`	h	0	240	0.1		meters	Local time of day observation
`Day_view_angl`	deg	0	130		-65	meters	View zenith angle of day observation
`LST_Night_1km`	K	7500	65635	0.02		meters	Night land surface temperature
`QC_Night`						meters	Nighttime LST quality indicators
Bitmask for QC_Night Bits 0-1: Mandatory QA flags 0: Pixel produced, good quality, not necessary to examine more detailed QA 1: Pixel produced, unreliable or unquantifiable quality, recommend examination of more detailed QA 2: Pixel not produced due to cloud effects 3: Pixel not produced primarily due to reasons other than cloud (such as ocean pixel, poor input data) Bits 2-3: Data quality flag 0: Good data quality 1: Other quality data 2: TBD 3: TBD Bits 4-5: Emissivity error flag 0: Average emissivity error <= 0.01 1: Average emissivity error <= 0.02 2: Average emissivity error <= 0.04 3: Average emissivity error > 0.04 Bits 6-7: LST error flag 0: Average LST error <= 1K 1: Average LST error <= 2K 2: Average LST error <= 3K 3: Average LST error > 3K
`Night_view_time`	h	0	240	0.1		meters	Local time of night observation
`Night_view_angl`	deg	0	130		-65	meters	View zenith angle of night observation
`Emis_31`		1	255	0.002	0.49	meters	Band 31 emissivity
`Emis_32`		1	255	0.002	0.49	meters	Band 32 emissivity
`Clear_sky_days`						meters	Days in clear-sky conditions
Bitmask for Clear_sky_days Bit 0: Day 1 clear sky flag 0: Day 1 is not clear-sky 1: Day 1 is clear-sky Bit 1: Day 2 clear sky flag 0: Day 2 is not clear-sky 1: Day 2 is clear-sky Bit 2: Day 3 clear sky flag 0: Day 3 is not clear-sky 1: Day 3 is clear-sky Bit 3: Day 4 clear sky flag 0: Day 4 is not clear-sky 1: Day 4 is clear-sky Bit 4: Day 5 clear sky flag 0: Day 5 is not clear-sky 1: Day 5 is clear-sky Bit 5: Day 6 clear sky flag 0: Day 6 is not clear-sky 1: Day 6 is clear-sky Bit 6: Day 7 clear sky flag 0: Day 7 is not clear-sky 1: Day 7 is clear-sky Bit 7: Day 8 clear sky flag 0: Day 8 is not clear-sky 1: Day 8 is clear-sky
`Clear_sky_nights`						meters	Nights in clear-sky conditions
Bitmask for Clear_sky_nights Bit 0: Night 1 clear sky flag 0: Night 1 is not clear-sky 1: Night 1 is clear-sky Bit 1: Night 2 clear sky flag 0: Night 2 is not clear-sky 1: Night 2 is clear-sky Bit 2: Night 3 clear sky flag 0: Night 3 is not clear-sky 1: Night 3 is clear-sky Bit 3: Night 4 clear sky flag 0: Night 4 is not clear-sky 1: Night 4 is clear-sky Bit 4: Night 5 clear sky flag 0: Night 5 is not clear-sky 1: Night 5 is clear-sky Bit 5: Night 6 clear sky flag 0: Night 6 is not clear-sky 1: Night 6 is clear-sky Bit 6: Night 7 clear sky flag 0: Night 7 is not clear-sky 1: Night 7 is clear-sky Bit 7: Night 8 clear sky flag 0: Night 8 is not clear-sky 1: Night 8 is clear-sky

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MODIS data and products acquired through the LP DAAC have no restrictions on subsequent use, sale, or redistribution.

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DOIs

https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD11A2.061

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var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('MODIS/061/MOD11A2')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2018-01-01', '2018-05-01'));
var landSurfaceTemperature = dataset.select('LST_Day_1km');
var landSurfaceTemperatureVis = {
  min: 14000.0,
  max: 16000.0,
  palette: [
    '040274', '040281', '0502a3', '0502b8', '0502ce', '0502e6',
    '0602ff', '235cb1', '307ef3', '269db1', '30c8e2', '32d3ef',
    '3be285', '3ff38f', '86e26f', '3ae237', 'b5e22e', 'd6e21f',
    'fff705', 'ffd611', 'ffb613', 'ff8b13', 'ff6e08', 'ff500d',
    'ff0000', 'de0101', 'c21301', 'a71001', '911003'
  ],
};
Map.setCenter(6.746, 46.529, 2);
Map.addLayer(
    landSurfaceTemperature, landSurfaceTemperatureVis,
    'Land Surface Temperature');

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MOD11A2.061 Terra Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity 8-Day Global 1km

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2000-02-18T00:00:00Z/2025-10-08T00:00:00Z

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MOD11A2.061 Terra Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity 8-Day Global 1km