VIIRS/JPSS1 BRDF/Albedo Albedo Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V002

Description

The NOAA-20 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) and Albedo (VJ143IA3) Version 2 product provides albedo values at 500 meter (m) resolution for the bihemispherical reflectance white-sky albedo (WSA) and directional hemispherical reflectance black-sky albedo (BSA) at local solar noon. The VJ143IA3 product is produced daily using 16 days of VIIRS data and is weighted temporally to the ninth day, which is reflected in the file name. The VJ143 data products are designed to promote the continuity of NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) BRDF/Albedo data product suite. The VJ143 algorithm uses the RossThick/Li-Sparse-Reciprocal (RTLSR) semi-empirical kernel-driven BRDF model, with the three kernel weights from (VJ143IA1) to reconstruct surface anisotropic effects, correcting the directional reflectance to a common view geometry (VJ143IA4), while also computing integrated black-sky albedo (BSA) at local solar noon and white-sky albedo (WSA) (VJ143IA3). Researchers can use the BRDF model parameters with a simple polynomial, to obtain black-sky albedo at any solar illumination angle. Likewise, both the BSA and WSA Science Dataset (SDS) layers can be used with a simple polynomial, to manually estimate instantaneous actual albedo (blue-sky albedo). Additional details regarding the methodology are available in the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD). The VJ143IA3 product provides a total of 9 SDS layers including: BSA, WSA, and mandatory quality layers for VIIRS imagery bands I1, I2, and I3. A low-resolution browse image is also available showing retrievals of WSA for band I1 in JPEG format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FVIIRS%2FVJ143IA3.002
0 Earthdata Search allows users to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=C2545310922-LPCLOUD
21 The LDOPE Land Product Quality Assessment website provides known issues, maneuvers, and product quality of the land products. https://landweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/QS/new/index.cgi
33 The ATBD provides physical theory and mathematical procedures for the calculations used to produce the data products. https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/194/VNP43_ATBD_V1.pdf
21 Validation at stage 3 has been achieved for the VIIRS BRDF/Albedo product suite. https://viirsland.gsfc.nasa.gov/Val/Albedo_Val.html
21 The LP DAAC product page provides information on Science Data Set layers and links for user guides, ATBDs, data access, tools, customer support, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VJ143IA3.002
21 The LP DAAC website provides detailed information on discovery, distribution, access, and support of land data products. https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/
21 Further details regarding VIIRS product validation and maturity status are available from VIIRS Land Product Quality Assessment site. https://viirsland.gsfc.nasa.gov/Val_overview.html
21 The technical information in the User's Guide enables users to interpret and use the data products. https://www.umb.edu/spectralmass/viirs-user-guides-c1-and-c2/vnp43ia3-and-vnp43ma3-albedo-products/
22 Browse image for Earthdata Search https://data.lpdaac.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/lp-prod-public/VJ143IA3.002/VJ143IA3.A2024294.h24v06.002.2024302065408/BROWSE.VJ143IA3.A2024294.h24v06.002.2024302065408.1.jpg

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  • land-surface
  • surface-radiative-properties
  • earth-science

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