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    • VIIRS/NPP Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Daily L3 Global 1km SIN Grid Night V001

    Metadata Updated: June 4, 2024

    The NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) Night Version 1 product (VNP21A1N) is compiled daily from nighttime Level 2 Gridded (L2G) intermediate products.

    The L2G process maps the daily (VNP21) (https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP21.001) swath granules onto a sinusoidal MODIS grid and stores all observations overlapping a gridded cell for a given night. The VNP21A1 algorithm sorts through all these observations for each cell and estimates the final LST value as an average from all cloud-free observations that have good LST accuracies. The nighttime average is weighted by the observation coverage for that cell. Only observations having observation coverage more than a certain threshold (15%) are considered for this averaging. The 1 kilometer dataset is derived through resampling the native 750 meter VIIRS resolution in the input product.

    The VNP21A1N product is developed synergistically with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST&E Version 6 product (MOD21A1N) (https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD21A1N.006) using the same input atmospheric products and algorithmic approach. The overall objective for NASA VIIRS products is to ensure the algorithms and products are compatible with the MODIS Terra and Aqua algorithms to promote the continuity of the Earth Observation System (EOS) mission. Additional details regarding the method used to create this Level 3 (L3) product are available in the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/1332/VNP21_ATBD_V1.pdf). VIIRS LST&E products are available 2 months after acquisition due to latency of data inputs.

    The VNP21A1N product contains seven Science Datasets (SDS): LST, quality control, emissivity for bands M14, M15, and M16, view zenith angle, and time of observation. A low-resolution browse image for LST is also available for each VNP21A1N granule.

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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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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 4, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Graphic Preview

    Browse image for Earthdata Search

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 4, 2024
    Publisher LP DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1442270801-LPDAAC_ECS
    Data First Published 2019-07-09
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2019-07-09
    Category NPP-JPSS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation Glynn Hulley, Simon Hook . 2019-07-09. VNP21A1N. Version 001. VIIRS/NPP Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Daily L3 Global 1km SIN Grid Night V001 . Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP21A1N.001. https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP21A1N.001. Digital Science Data. This data set was provided by the NASA/NOAA NPP Project. The DOI landing page provides citations in APA and Chicago styles. .
    Creator Glynn Hulley, Simon Hook
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview Description Browse image for Earthdata Search
    Graphic Preview File https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/WORKING/BRWS/Browse.001/2019.05.30/BROWSE.VNP21A1N.A2019120.h17v05.001.2019150003254.1.jpg?_ga=2.257795400.2140299264.1561987470-1109527761.1561753117
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    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP21A1N.001
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
    Series Name VNP21A1N
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f87843c7a11d271ac48901c68e663ec2b0cf4d4387b97dcaa8e1c0a5eec502c7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2012-01-19T00:00:00Z/2024-06-03T00:00:00Z

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