VIIRS/NPP Daily Gridded Day Night Band 500m Linear Lat Lon Grid Night
The first of two VIIRS DNB-based datasets is a daily, top-of-atmosphere, at-sensor nighttime radiance product called VIIRS/NPP Daily Gridded Day Night Band 15 arc-second Linear Lat Lon Grid Night. Known by its short-name, VNP46A1, this product contains 26 Science Data Sets (SDS) that include sensor radiance, zenith and azimuth angles (at-sensor, solar, and lunar), cloud-mask flags, time, shortwave IR radiance, brightness temperatures, VIIRS quality flags, moon phase angle, and moon illumination fraction. It also provides Quality Flag (QF) information specific to the cloud-mask, VIIRS moderate-resolution bands M10, M11, M12, M13, M15, M16, and DNB.
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| description | The first of two VIIRS DNB-based datasets is a daily, top-of-atmosphere, at-sensor nighttime radiance product called VIIRS/NPP Daily Gridded Day Night Band 15 arc-second Linear Lat Lon Grid Night. Known by its short-name, VNP46A1, this product contains 26 Science Data Sets (SDS) that include sensor radiance, zenith and azimuth angles (at-sensor, solar, and lunar), cloud-mask flags, time, shortwave IR radiance, brightness temperatures, VIIRS quality flags, moon phase angle, and moon illumination fraction. It also provides Quality Flag (QF) information specific to the cloud-mask, VIIRS moderate-resolution bands M10, M11, M12, M13, M15, M16, and DNB. |
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| identifier | C1897815356-LAADS |
| issued | 2019-03-22 |
| keyword |
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| landingPage | https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A1.001 |
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| modified | 2025-04-23 |
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| spatial | -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0 |
| temporal | 2012-01-19T00:00:00Z/2025-03-03T00:00:00Z |
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| title | VIIRS/NPP Daily Gridded Day Night Band 500m Linear Lat Lon Grid Night |
