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VIIRS/NPP Day/Night Band 6-Min L1B Swath 750m NRT

Metadata Updated: October 30, 2025

The VIIRS/NPP Day/Night Band 6-Min L1B Swath SDR 750m Near Real Time (NRT) product, short-name VNP02DNB_NRT is among the VIIRS Level 1 and Level 2 swath products that are generated from the processing of 6 minutes of VIIRS data acquired during the S-NPP satellite overpass. The Day/Night band (DNB) is a panchromatic channel covering the wavelengths from 500 nm to 900 nm, and sensitive to visible and near-infrared from daylight down to the low-level radiation observed at night.The VIIRS DNB is much improved from previous products due in large part to its complicated continuous on-board calibration. In addition, new-moon Earth observations are used to estimate and remove stray light. These corrections are a first of its kind to provide on-orbit radiometric calibration. The corrections made to the DNB data are provided by the NASA VIIRS Characterization Support Team and are likely to continue to evolve given this new methodology.The spatial resolution of the instrument at viewing nadir is approximately 750 m for the DNB and the Moderate-resolution Bands and and 375m for the Imagery bands. The DNB is aggregated to maintain nearly constant horizontal spatial resolution across the swath.As the DNB is sensitive to nighttime radiation over the full lunar cycle, the incoming solar and lunar radiation must be properly modeled to calculate the reflectance. However, the DNB is sensitive to more sources of radiation than just the sun and moon.

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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 October 30, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 30, 2025
Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/BSL/VCST;NASA/GSFC/EOS/ESDIS/LANCE MODIS
Maintainer
Identifier 10.5067/VIIRS/VNP02DNB_NRT.002
Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
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Homepage URL https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/download-nrt-data/viirs-nrt
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Program Code 026:000
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Spatial
Temporal 2022-01-25/2022-01-25

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