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Imagery○ PlannedV061, 2000–present, 16-day composites

MODIS Veg Indices MOD13/MYD13 V061 (NASA LP DAAC)

25 years of global NDVI and EVI at 250m — the deep historical record Sentinel-2 can't reach.

What this is

MODIS Vegetation Indices (MOD13/MYD13 V061) deliver 16-day composited NDVI and EVI at 250m–1km globally, 2000–present. Available via Earthdata, GEE, AWS Open Data, and COG. No restrictions on use, sale, or redistribution.

Why we surface it

Sentinel-2 starts in 2015. For any question requiring more than a decade of vegetation history — long-run productivity trends, multi-year drought impacts, phenological shift — MODIS is the only open record that goes far enough back.

What you can do with it

Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.

Internal / individual use
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Redistribute the data
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Republish a derivative
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Build into a private product
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).

This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.

○ Planned

Not in the map yet — this source is on the V1 backlog. Schema, sample, and citation slots fill in once the layer ships.

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