VIIRS/NPP Sea Ice Cover 6-Min L2 Swath 375 m V001

Description

This data set reports the location of sea ice cover derived from radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Following the approach used by MODIS, Sea Ice is detected using the Normalized Difference Snow Index. The VIIRS instrument flies onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite.

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%2FVNP29.001
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/VIIRS/VNP29.001
21 Search and filter data files using a map-based interface https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/VNP29/versions/1/
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP29.001
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=VNP29+V001

Tags

  • cryosphere
  • earth-science
  • sea-ice

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