VIIRS/NPP Sea Ice Cover 6-Min L2 Swath 375m V002

Description

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

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search and filter data files using a map-based interface https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/VNP29/versions/2/
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/VIIRS/VNP29.002
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=VNP29+V002
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/GKJ486GAV3HH
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGKJ486GAV3HH
21 This application allows you to interactively browse global satellite imagery within hours of it being acquired. You can also save it, share it, and download the underlying data. https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-248%2C-90%2C130%2C99&l=Coastlines_15m%2CVIIRS_SNPP_Ice_Surface_Temp_Day%2CVIIRS_SNPP_Ice_Surface_Temp_Night%2CMODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor

Tags

  • cryosphere
  • earth-science
  • sea-ice

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