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Description

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.

Version Description

Updated data release, as part of VIIRS Collection 2

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
VIIRS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
375 Meters x 375 Meters
Location
GLOBAL OCEAN ,
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2012-01-19 to Present
Temporal Resolution
6 Minute
Concept ID
C3173445758-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
508366
Processing Level
2
Published
Science Keywords
Sea Ice

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Riggs, G., Tschudi, M., & Hall, D. (2023). VIIRS/NPP Sea Ice Cover 6-Min L2 Swath 375m, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/GKJ486GAV3HH Date Accessed: 2026-08-07

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