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    • VIIRS/NPP Snow Cover 6-Min L2 Swath 375m

    Metadata Updated: October 23, 2025

    This data set reports the location of snow cover using radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. Snow cover is identified using the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and a series of quality control screens.

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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 May 19, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date October 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 19, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date October 23, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/EOS/ESDIS/LANCEMODIS
    Maintainer
    Identifier doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VNP10_NRT.001
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    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 428bfdcb-5de1-44b1-a841-e4e00216d95b
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://landweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/NPP_QA/
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90.0}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0289bb0f2c121fa3fa03b4eec74c9951f726d428b45ab3b275aec23cc06e1b8a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2012-01-19/2012-01-19

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