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    • VIIRS/NPP Sea Ice Cover 6-Min L2 Swath 375m V002

    Metadata Updated: April 11, 2025

    This data set reports the location of sea ice cover derived from radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. Following the approach used by MODIS, Sea Ice is detected using the Normalized Difference Snow Index.

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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 July 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2330741502-NSIDC_ECS
    Data First Published 2012-01-19
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id b0a63ce6-577d-4f56-a681-8ab3293c24ca
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GKJ486GAV3HH
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a8b29136bb9a2555dfd51ce8b3c964b4b3ef8468dc79bda6170a40aa9f49d56f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2012-01-19T00:00:00Z/2025-03-24T00:00:00Z

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