MODIS (Terra/Aqua)
Provider: NASA
A 36-band wide-swath sensor. Though coarse in resolution, it covers the entire globe almost daily and is the workhorse for large-scale vegetation, fire and ocean-color monitoring, with a rich set of standard products.
Sample imagery
Live imagery by location
Enter a place, address or country — or exact coordinates — to pull live satellite imagery for that location via a public API.
SourceNASA GIBS Live layer from the same sensor/product as this dataset.Geocoding © OpenStreetMap / Photon
Resolution
250 m
Revisit
1–2 days
Coverage
Global
License
Open license (commercial use OK)
Price
$0 — Free
Common use cases
- Global vegetation monitoring
- Wildfire detection
- Ocean color & red-tide monitoring
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