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VIIRS/JPSS2 Moderate Resolution 6-Min L1B Swath 750m NRT

Published by NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/BSL/VCST;NASA/GSFC/EOS/ESDIS/LANCE MODIS | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: February 21, 2026 | Last Modified: 2026-02-17
The Near Real Time (NRT) VIIRS/JPSS2 Moderate Resolution 6-Min L1B Swath 750m, short-name VJ202MOD_NRT is the Joint Polar-orbiting Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2/NOAA-21; referred to hereafter as J2) platform-derived NASA VIIRS L1B calibrated radiances product that comprises of sixteen moderate-resolution or M-bands with a spatial resolution of 750-meters at nadir. These M-bands comprise eleven reflective solar bands (RSB) and five thermal emissive bands (TEB). Each of the M-bands has 16 detectors in the along-track direction with 16 rows of pixels per scan that provide a 750-m resolution. Ranging in wavelengths from 0.402 µm to 12.49 µm, the M-bands are sensitive to visible, near-, shortwave-, mediumwave-, and longwave-infrared wavelengths. Derived from the NASA VIIRS L1A raw radiances, this product includes calibrated and geolocated radiance and reflectance data, quality flags, and granule- and collection-level metadata. In contrast to a MODIS L1B product, which temporally spans 5 minutes, the VIIRS L1B calibrated radiances product contains a nominal temporal duration of 6 minutes. The image dimensions of the 750-m swath product measure 3232 lines by 3200 pixels.The J2 VIIRS radiometric calibration Level-1B reprocessing includes a few calibration updates for the reflective solar bands (RSB), but no significant changes for the day-night band (DNB) or thermal emissive bands (TEB). For more information download VIIRS Level 1 Product User's Guide at: https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/Document%20Archive/Science%20Data%20Product%20Documentation/NASA_VIIRS_L1B_UG_August_2021.pdf

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