VIIRS/NPP Moderate Resolution Terrain-Corrected Geolocation L1 6-Min Swath 750 m

Description

The VIIRS/NPP Moderate Resolution Terrain-Corrected Geolocation 6-Min L1 Swath 750 m product, short-name VNP03MOD, contains the derived line-of-sight (LOS) vectors for each of the 750-m moderate-resolution, or M-bands. The geolocation algorithm uses a number of inputs that include an Earth ellipsoid, geoid, and a digital terrain model along with the SNPP platform’s ephemeris and attitude data, and knowledge of the VIIRS sensor and satellite geometry. It produces geodetic coordinates (latitude and longitude), and related parameters for each VIIRS L1 pixel. The VNP03MOD product includes geodetic latitude, longitude, surface height above the geoid, solar zenith and azimuth angles, sensor zenith and azimuth angles, land/water mask, and quality flag for every pixel location.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 The product landing page https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP03MOD.002
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FVIIRS%2FVNP03MOD.002
21 Direct access to VNP03MOD C2 data set. https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/5200/VNP03MOD/
21 Search and order products from LAADS website. https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/search/order/2/VNP03MOD--5200
21 Direct access to product's OPeNDAP directory https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/hyrax/allData/5200/VNP03MOD/contents.html
33 VIIRS Level-1 User Guide - version 3 https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/viirs/NASA_VIIRS_L1B_UG_August_2021.pdf
33 VIIRS Geolocation ATBD Link https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/viirs/NASARevisedVIIRSGeolocationATBD2014.pdf

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  • sensor-characteristics
  • solid-earth
  • spectral-engineering
  • geodetics
  • earth-science

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