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    • VIIRS/NPP Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 375m SIN Grid V002

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

    This data set contains daily snow cover derived from radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The data is a gridded composite, generated from 6 minute swaths, and projected to a 375 m Sinusoidal grid. Snow cover is identified using the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and a series of screens designed to alleviate errors and flag uncertain snow cover detections.

    Access & Use Information

    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 10, 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 10, 2025
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2317038246-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 305c4880-9c38-4512-864a-15f1220db12e
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/45VDCKJBXWEE
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e1d5901a03928ed2cecf8aaf482beb11ae0bedfb2b9f3abd25280e7bdd69b950
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2012-01-19T00:00:00Z/2025-03-24T00:00:00Z

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