ORNL DAAC’s MODIS Web Service has been updated to a RESTful Application Programming Interface (API). The MODIS Web Service can be used to programmatically retrieve subsets for a variety of MODIS Collection 6 Land Products for user-defined areas and time periods.
The updated MODIS Web Service offers improved performance, simplified client solutions, standards-based specifications, and responses in either CSV or JSON format. Example calls to each web service function are provided at https://modis.ornl.gov/rst/ui/.
We provide several tutorials demonstrating how to retrieve MODIS data via the web service using Python and R:
The API also provides programmatic access to the advanced visualization and quality filtering capabilities of the web-based MODIS tools maintained by the ORNL DAAC:
Citation:
ORNL DAAC. 2018. MODIS Collection 6 Land Product Subsets RESTful Web Service. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Accessed May 05, 2018. Products obtained using the MODIS Web Service tool. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1600
Data center: ORNL DAAC
Sponsor: NASA EOSDIS
