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VIIRS/NPP Daily Gridded Day Night Band 15 arc-second Linear Lat Lon Grid Night V2

Published by NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/LAADS;NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Catalog Last Checked: June 25, 2026 at 02:09 PM | Dataset Last Updated: June 23, 2026
The VIIRS/NPP Daily Gridded Day Night Band 15 arc-second Linear Lat Lon Grid Night product, short-name VNP46A1 is a daily, top-of-atmosphere, at-sensor nighttime radiance product. This product is available at 15 arc-second spatial resolution from January 2012 onward. The VNP46A1/VJ146A1 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. The current v2.0 collection contains several changes and differences relative to the previous v1.0 collection. These include radiance data format change from unsigned integer to floating-point, from exclusively for land surfaces coverage to both land and water surfaces, updated Mandatory_Quality_Flag layer, and others.

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