The Global Data Archive 1 contains MODIS (MOD13C2) vegetation index (NDVI and EVI) monthly data, collection 6. The original data was retrieved from online data pool, courtesy of the NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), USGS/Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/). The data is in the IDRISI file format and can be readily used by the TerrSet software. The original values were not altered. The archive size is 25 GB, download size is 4 GB.
Metadata
The data was retrieved from the NASA LP DACC site in HDF fomrat and converted to the IDRISI file format and distributed here with its original data values.
Specifications
Reference System: latitude / longitude (WGS84)
Date Range: February 2000 – June 2016
Resolution: 0.05 degrees
Extent (degrees): -180 to +180, -90 to +90
Units: NDVI – EVI – VI Quality (.0001)
Background: -3000
Rows: 3600
Columns: 7200
The VI Quality flags are also distributed for each month using the following categories:
0 = VI not produced
1 = Cloud contaminated
2 = Unreliable quality
3 = Good quality