MODIS Download

EarthAccess

We can directly use the API developed by NASA.

Example script showing how we can search the database for the appropriate files.

Note: xarray doesn’t play nicely with HDF files. So use rioxarray instead. Here is a tutorial.

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PyMODIS

This is a simple package but it requires the user to have a lot of meta information about which files they want to download.

Example script where we can download the data in parallel.

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SatPy

• SatPy Reader - SatPy
• Example Reader with SatPy and manual file matching - Example Script