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    • VIIRS/JPSS1 Granular Gridded Day Night Band 500m Linear Lat Lon Grid Night NRT

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    The Near Real Time (NRT) NOAA-20 - formerly the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) hourly top-of-atmosphere, at-sensor nighttime radiance product called VIIRS/NPP Granular Gridded Day Night Band 500m Linear Lat Lon Grid Night. Known by its short-name, VJ146A1G_NRT, is same as VJ146A1_NRT except that this product is generated hourly, cumulative from start of day through the hour the file is generated for. This product contains 26 Science Data Sets (SDS) that include sensor radiance, zenith and azimuth angles (at-sensor, solar, and lunar), cloud-mask flags, time, shortwave IR radiance, brightness temperatures, VIIRS quality flags, moon phase angle, and moon illumination fraction. It also provides Quality Flag (QF) information specific to the cloud-mask, VIIRS moderate-resolution bands M10, M11, M12, M13, M15, M16, and DNB.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/EOS/ESDIS/LANCE MODIS
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/VIIRS/VJ146A1G_NRT.002
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VJ146A1_NRT.002
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90.0,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90.0}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 52b6a2c37d1cc47850d735d1d5d120e3254a5f5ff85e06ba0751f3e644b4f203
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2023-10-10/2023-10-10

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