Paper Info
Title
Land, Cryosphere, and nighttime enviromental products from Suomi NPP VIIRS: Overview and status
Abstract
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument was launched in October 2011 as part of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP: http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/). VIIRS was designed to improve upon the capabilities of the operational Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and provide observation continuity with NASA's Earth Observing System's (EOS) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Since the VIIRS first-light images were received in November 2011, NASA and NOAA funded scientists have been working to evaluate the instrument performance and derived products to meet the needs of the NOAA operational users and the NASA science community. NOAA's focus has been on refining a suite of operational products known as Environmental Data Records (EDRs), which were developed according to project specifications under the former National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). The NASA S-NPP Science Team has focused on evaluating the EDRs for science use, developing and testing additional products to meet science data needs and providing MODIS data product continuity. This paper will present to-date findings of the NASA Science Team's evaluation of the VIIRS Land and Cryosphere EDRs, specifically Surface Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, Vegetation Indices, Surface Type, Active Fires, Snow Cover, Ice Surface Temperature, and Sea Ice Characterization (http://viirsland.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html). The paper will also discuss new capabilities being developed at NASA's Land Product Evaluation and Test Element (http://landweb.nascom.nasa.gov/NPP_QA/); including downstream data and products derived from the VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB).
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947244
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
geophysical techniques,remote sensing,AD 2011 10,AD 2011 11,Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer,EOS MODIS,Environmental Data Records,MODIS data product,Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer,NASA Earth Observing System,NASA S-NPP Science Team,NASA Science Team,NASA funded scientists,NASA science community,NOAA funded scientists,NOAA operational,NPOESS,National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System,SUOMI NPP VIIRS,VIIRS instrument,Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite,active fires,cryosphere environmental product,ice surface temperature,land environmental product,land surface temperature,nighttime environmental product,sea ice characterization,snow cover,surface reflectance,vegetation index,Cryosphere,Land Cover,Land Use,Nighttime Environmental Products,Remote Sensing
Meteorology,Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer,Computer science,Remote sensing,Albedo,Advanced very-high-resolution radiometer,Environmental data,Cryosphere,NPOESS,Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite,Radiometer
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Miguel O. Roman1264.19
Christopher Justice200.34
Ivan Csiszar300.34