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

Metadata Updated: January 27, 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 January 27, 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 January 27, 2025
Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2330741502-NSIDC_ECS
Data First Published 2012-01-19
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-01-23
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Citation VIIRS/NPP Sea Ice Cover 6-Min L2 Swath 375m V002. Version 2. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/GKJ486GAV3HH.
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Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2012-01-19T00:00:00Z/2025-01-27T00:00:00Z

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