GIBS Available Imagery Products
50+ full resolution, global imagery products from NASA Earth Observing System satellites are continuously ingested from LANCE data providers, mosaicked, and served in near-real time (<3 hours latency) by the Global Imagery Browse Services. This includes products from the MODIS and MLS instruments aboard Terra and Aqua, the AIRS instrument aboard Aqua, and the OMI instrument aboard Aura.
MODIS, AIRS, and OMI holdings begin at 2012/05/08 and run through the present. MLS holdings begin 2013/05/09 and run through the present. We are actively working to build our archive to include earlier dates
Access to this imagery is provided via Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Tile Service (WMTS), Tiled WMS (TWMS), and Google Earth KML generation as described in the Access Methods section.
A machine-readable listing of available products can be generated via:
These products can be then be viewed in the Worldview client or a number of other supported clients.
A full listing of available products is provided here for convenience:
| Instrument | Spacecraft | Imagery Layer | Resolution [3] | Layer Name on Server | Format | Projection(s) | Data Product | SDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MODIS | Terra | Corrected Reflectance (True Color) | 250m | MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor | jpeg | 4326, 3031, 3413 | ||
| MODIS | Aqua | Corrected Reflectance (True Color) | 250m | MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Land Surface Reflectance (True Color) | 500m | MODIS_Terra_SurfaceReflectance_Bands143 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Aqua | Land Surface Reflectance (True Color) | 500m | MODIS_Aqua_SurfaceReflectance_Bands143 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Corrected Reflectance (Bands 7-2-1) | 250m | MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_Bands721 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Aqua | Corrected Reflectance (Bands 7-2-1) | 250m | MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_Bands721 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Land Surface Reflectance (Bands 7-2-1) | 500m | MODIS_Terra_SurfaceReflectance_Bands721 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Aqua | Land Surface Reflectance (Bands 7-2-1) | 500m | MODIS_Aqua_SurfaceReflectance_Bands721 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Corrected Reflectance (Bands 3-6-7) | 250m | MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_Bands367 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Land Surface Reflectance (Bands 1-2-1) | 250m | MODIS_Terra_SurfaceReflectance_Bands121 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Aqua | Land Surface Reflectance (Bands 1-2-1) | 250m | MODIS_Aqua_SurfaceReflectance_Bands121 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Snow Cover | 500m | MODIS_Terra_Snow_Cover | png | MOD10_L2 v5 | Fractional_Snow_Cover | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Snow Cover | 500m | MODIS_Aqua_Snow_Cover | png | MYD10_L2 v5 | Fractional_Snow_Cover | |
| MODIS | Terra | Sea Ice | 1km | MODIS_Terra_Sea_Ice | png | MOD29 v5 | Sea_Ice_by_Reflectance | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Sea Ice | 1km | MODIS_Aqua_Sea_Ice | png | MYD29 v5 | Sea_Ice_by_Reflectance | |
| MODIS | Terra | Land Surface Temperature (day) | 1km | MODIS_Terra_Land_Surface_Temp_Day | png | MOD11_L2 v5 | LST | |
| MODIS | Terra | Land Surface Temperature (night) | 1km | MODIS_Terra_Land_Surface_Temp_Night | png | MOD11_L2 v5 | LST | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Land Surface Temperature (day) | 1km | MODIS_Aqua_Land_Surface_Temp_Day | png | MYD11_L2 v5 | LST | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Land Surface Temperature (night) | 1km | MODIS_Aqua_Land_Surface_Temp_Night | png | MOD11_L2 v5 | LST | |
| MODIS | Terra | Brightness Temperature (Band 31, day) | 1km | MODIS_Terra_Brightness_Temp_Band31_Day | png | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Brightness Temperature (Band 31, night) | 1km | MODIS_Terra_Brightness_Temp_Band31_Night | png | |||
| MODIS | Aqua | Brightness Temperature (Band 31, day) | 1km | MODIS_Aqua_Brightness_Temp_Band31_Day | png | |||
| MODIS | Aqua | Brightness Temperature (Band 31, night) | 1km | MODIS_Aqua_Brightness_Temp_Band31_Night | png | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Water Vapor (day) | 5km | MODIS_Terra_Water_Vapor_5km_Day | png | Water_Vapor_Infrared | ||
| MODIS | Terra | Water Vapor (night) | 5km | MODIS_Terra_Water_Vapor_5km_Night | png | Water_Vapor_Infrared | ||
| MODIS | Aqua | Water Vapor (day) | 5km | MODIS_Aqua_Water_Vapor_5km_Day | png | Water_Vapor_Infrared | ||
| MODIS | Aqua | Water Vapor (night) | 5km | MODIS_Aqua_Water_Vapor_5km_Night | png | Water_Vapor_Infrared | ||
| MODIS | Terra | Cloud Top Pressure (day) | 2km | MODIS_Terra_Cloud_Top_Pressure_Day | png | MOD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Pressure | |
| MODIS | Terra | Cloud Top Pressure (night) | 2km | MODIS_Terra_Cloud_Top_Pressure_Night | png | MOD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Pressure | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Cloud Top Pressure (day) | 2km | MODIS_Aqua_Cloud_Top_Pressure_Day | png | MYD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Pressure | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Cloud Top Pressure (night) | 2km | MODIS_Aqua_Cloud_Top_Pressure_Night | png | MYD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Pressure | |
| MODIS | Terra | Cloud Top Temperature (day) | 2km | MODIS_Terra_Cloud_Top_Temp_Day | png | MOD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Temperature | |
| MODIS | Terra | Cloud Top Temperature (night) | 2km | MODIS_Terra_Cloud_Top_Temp_Night | png | MOD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Temperature | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Cloud Top Temperature (day) | 2km | MODIS_Aqua_Cloud_Top_Temp_Day | png | MYD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Temperature | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Cloud Top Temperature (night) | 2km | MODIS_Aqua_Cloud_Top_Temp_Night | png | MYD06_L2 v5 | Cloud_Top_Temperature | |
| MODIS | Terra | Aerosol Optical Depth | 2km | MODIS_Terra_Aerosol | png | MOD04_L2 v5 | Optical_Depth_Land_And_Ocean | |
| MODIS | Aqua | Aerosol Optical Depth | 2km | MODIS_Aqua_Aerosol | png | MYD04_L2 v5 | Optical_Depth_Land_And_Ocean | |
MODIS | Terra and Aqua | MODIS Combined Value-Added Aerosol Optical Depth | 2km | MODIS_Combined_Value_Added_AOD | png | |||
| MODIS | Terra | Data-No Data Mask | 250m | MODIS_Terra_Data_No_Data | png | |||
| MODIS | Aqua | Data-No Data Mask | 250m | MODIS_Aqua_Data_No_Data | png | |||
| AIRS | Aqua | Dust Score | 2km | AIRS_Dust_Score | png | AIRIBQAP_NRT | ||
| AIRS | Aqua | Carbon Monoxide (Total Column, Day) | 2km | AIRS_CO_Total_Column_Day | png | AIRX2RET_NRT | ||
| AIRS | Aqua | Carbon Monoxide (Total Column, Night) | 2km | AIRS_CO_Total_Column_Night | png | AIRX2RET_NRT | ||
| AIRS | Aqua | Sulphur Dioxide (Day, Prata Algorithm) | 2km | AIRS_Prata_SO2_Index_Day | png | AIRIBRAD_NRT | ||
| AIRS | Aqua | Sulphur Dioxide (Night, Prata Algorithm) | 2km | AIRS_Prata_SO2_Index_Night | png | AIRIBRAD_NRT | ||
| AIRS | Aqua | Precipitation Estimate (Day) | 2km | AIRS_Precipitation_Day | png | AIRX2SUP_NRT | ||
| AIRS | Aqua | Precipitation Estimate (Night) | 2km | AIRS_Precipitation_Night | png | AIRX2SUP_NRT | ||
| OMI | Aura | Cloud Pressure | 2km | OMI_Cloud_Pressure | png | OMCLDRR | ||
| OMI | Aura | Aerosol Index | 2km | OMI_Aerosol_Index | png | OMAERUV | ||
| OMI | Aura | Aerosol Optical Depth | 2km | OMI_Aerosol_Optical_Depth | png | OMAERUV | ||
| OMI | Aura | Absorbing Aerosol Optical Depth | 2km | OMI_Absorbing_Aerosol_Optical_Depth | png | OMAERUV | ||
OMI | Aura | Sulfur Dioxide (Planetary Boundary Layer) | 2km | OMI_SO2_Planetary_Boundary_Layer | png | |||
OMI | Aura | Sulfur Dioxide (Lower Troposphere) | 2km | OMI_SO2_Lower_Troposphere | png | |||
OMI | Aura | Sulfur Dioxide (Middle Troposphere) | 2km | OMI_SO2_Middle_Troposphere | png | |||
OMI | Aura | Sulfur Dioxide (Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere) | 2km | OMI_SO2_Upper_Troposphere_and_Stratosphere | png | |||
| VIIRS | Suomi NPP | Earth at Night 2012 [1] | 500m | VIIRS_CityLights_2012 | jpeg | |||
| MODIS | Terra and SRTM | Water Mask [2] | 250m | MODIS_Water_Mask | png | |||
| MLS | Aqua | Carbon Monoxide (CO) at 215 hPa (Day) | 2km | MLS_CO_215hPa_Day | png | ML2CO_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Carbon Monoxide (CO) at 215 hPa (Night) | 2km | MLS_CO_215hPa_Night | png | ML2CO_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Water Vapor (H2O) at 46 hPa (Day) | 2km | MLS_H2O_46hPa_Day | png | ML2H20_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Water Vapor (H2O) at 46 hPa (Night) | 2km | MLS_H2O_46hPa_Night | png | ML2H20_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Nitric Acid (HNO3) at 46 hPa (Day) | 2km | MLS_HNO3_46hPa_Day | png | ML2HN03_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Nitric Acid (HNO3) at 46 hPa (Night) | 2km | MLS_HNO3_46hPa_Night | png | ML2HN03_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Nitrous Oxide (N2O) at 46 hPa (Day) | 2km | MLS_N2O_46hPa_Day | png | ML2N2O_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Nitrous Oxide (N2O) at 46 hPa (Night) | 2km | MLS_N2O_46hPa_Night | png | ML2N2O_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Ozone (O3) at 46 hPa (Day) | 2km | MLS_O3_46hPa_Day | png | ML2O3_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Ozone (O3) at 46 hPa (Night) | 2km | MLS_O3_46hPa_Night | png | ML2O3_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) at 147 hPa (Day) | 2km | MLS_SO2_147hPa_Day | png | ML2SO2_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) at 147 hPa (Night) | 2km | MLS_SO2_147hPa_Night | png | ML2SO2_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Temperature at 46 hPa (Day) | 2km | MLS_Temperature_46hPa_Day | png | ML2T_NRT v003 | ||
| MLS | Aqua | Temperature at 46 hPa (Night) | 2km | MLS_Temperature_46hPa_Night | png | ML2T_NRT v003 |
[1] This layer is a single composite of data from nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It does not vary over time.
[2] This is a static layer and does not change over time.
[3] This value refers to the resolution of the imagery. In many cases the actual instrument or measurement resolution is coarser.
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