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

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/viirs/vnp29_nrt.001

This data set reports the location of sea ice cover derived from radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).

Description

Following the approach used by MODIS, the algorithm assumes that sea ice is snow covered and can be detected using the Normalized Difference Snow Index. The VIIRS instrument flies on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite.

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Geophysics 72%
Provenance · 2 source records, 18 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC1547591035-LANCEMODIS12 d agoJSON v1
NASA Data Portal48b463fb-4d65-4326-b9f8-5387d39bda069 d agoJSON v1
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concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmentalmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physicsmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:viirssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/sea-icesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
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