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This short tutorial is the first video (Part 1) of the “Getting Started with MODIS Version 6 -Vegetation Indices Data” video series.
This video focuses on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Terra and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Version 6 Vegetation Indices data distributed by NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).
In this short tutorial, we will cover the MODIS Version 6 Vegetation Indices data products, improvements in Version 6 products over Version 5 products, and how to search for and download these data using the NASA Earthdata Search Client data access tool To learn more about MODIS Version 6 Vegetation Indices data and other data products distributed by the LP DAAC please visit https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/.
