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VIIRS/NPP Lunar BRDF-Adjusted Nighttime Lights Monthly L3 Global 15 arc second Linear Lat Lon Grid V2
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/viirs/vnp46a3.002
The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) supports a Day-Night Band (DNB) sensor that provides global daily measurements of nocturnal visible and near-infrared (NIR) light that are suitable for Earth system science and applications.
Description
The VIIRS DNB’s ultra-sensitivity in lowlight conditions enable us to generate a new set of science-quality nighttime products that manifest substantial improvements in sensor resolution and calibration when compared to the previous era of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System’s (DMSP/OLS) nighttime lights image products.
Such improvements allow the VIIRS DNB products to better monitor both the magnitude and signature of nighttime phenomena, and anthropogenic sources of light emissions. VNP46A3 is the short-name for the monthly composited, moonlight- and atmosphere-corrected Nighttime Lights (NTL) product whose long-name is VIIRS/NPP Lunar BRDF-Adjusted Nighttime Lights Monthly L3 Global 15 arc second Linear Lat Lon Grid. It contains 28 Science Data Sets (SDS).
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This v2.0 VNP46A3 collection is provided in standard Hierarchical Data Format–Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS5) format, and starts from January 1, 2012. This product has been validated through various field campaigns of opportunity supported under the Group on Earth obs. (GEO) Human Planet Initiative’s Nighttime Product Validation (NPV) task.
Additionally, the VNP46 product suite comes with ancillary and quality assessment layers indicating sources of error from the calibration, cloud mask, snow flag, and lunar irradiance, etc.
Links
Get the data
- PDF ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-measurements/viirs/VIIRS_Black_Marble_ATBD_v1.1_J… ↗
VIIRS Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product Suite Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- VIEW RELATED INFORMATION earthdata.nasa.gov/data/projects/black-marble?tempAccess=PQ81CJc0-wU8_bo0eHoDDsTU… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3860061042-LAADS.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3860061042-LAADS ↗
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download · from NASA CMR
- Direct access to LAADS archive ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/5200/VNP46A3 ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- PDF ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/v2/content/archives/Document%20Archive/Science%20Data%20Pr… ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/viirs-npp-lunar-brdf-adjusted-nighttime-lights-monthly… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/viirs/vnp46a3.002 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Documentation and papers
- ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov /api/v2/content/archives/Document%20Archive/Science%20Data%20Pr… ↗
VIIRS Black Marble Product Version 2.0 User Guide
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=6f2132be-dd4a-49d5-90eb-f39dc0fdf… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3860061042-LAADS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3860061042-LAADS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Suomi-NPP · Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite · Visible Radiance
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 69% · Image 75% · Imaging 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 21 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3860061042-LAADS | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 6f2132be-dd4a-49d5-90eb-f39dc0fdfe5f | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:viirs | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:biosphere/earth-science/spectral-engineering/visible-wavelengths/visible-radiance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:suomi-npp | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |