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VIIRS Data Access and Tools

Explore Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) datasets and learn more about relevant data tools.

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Dataset Temporal Extent Version Data State Processing Level Data Format Related Topics
CERES Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) TOA/Surface Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols NOAA20-FM6-VIIRS Edition1B 2018-05-01 to Present Edition1B ACTIVE 2 netCDF-4 Aerosols, Atmospheric Radiation, Clouds, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Emissivity
VIIRS Plus DMSP Change in Lights (VIIRS+DMSP dLIGHT) 1992-01-01, 2002-01-01, 2013-01-01 1.0 COMPLETE 4 GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, WMS Electricity, Energy Production/Use, Human Settlements, Population Distribution, Sustainable Development
VIIRS/SNPP Water Vapor Level-3 daily 0.5 x 0.5 degree grid 2012-05-01 to 2018-09-11 1 COMPLETE 3 NetCDF4 Atmospheric Water Vapor, Water Vapor Indicators, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor
VIIRS/SNPP Water Vapor Level-3 monthly 0.5 x 0.5 degree grid 2012-05-01 to 2018-09-01 1 COMPLETE 3 NetCDF-4 Atmospheric Water Vapor, Water Vapor Indicators, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor
VIIRS/SNPP Level-2 Water Vapor Products 6-min Swath 750m 2012-05-01 to 2018-09-11 1 COMPLETE 2 NetCDF-4 Atmospheric Water Vapor, Water Vapor Indicators, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor
VIIRS/NPP BRDF/Albedo BSA at Solar Noon DNB Daily L3 Global 30ArcSec CMG V001 2012-01-19 to 2025-02-01 001 DEPRECATED 3 HDF-EOS5 Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance
GHRSST Level 2P Global Sea Surface Skin Temperature from the Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi-NPP satellite (GDS2) 2011-11-21 2016.2 ACTIVE 2P netCDF-4 Sea Surface Temperature
2015 Urban Extents from VIIRS and MODIS for the Continental U.S. Using Machine Learning Methods 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31 1.0 COMPLETE 4 GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, WMS Boundaries
GHRSST Level 4 RAMSSA_9km Australian Regional Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis v1.0 dataset (GDS2) 2006-06-12 to Present 1.0 ACTIVE 4 netCDF-4 Sea Surface Temperature
GHRSST Level 4 GAMSSA_28km Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis v1.0 dataset (GDS2) 2008-07-23 1.0 ACTIVE 4 netCDF-4 Sea Surface Foundation Temperature
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VIIRS Data Tools

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AppEEARS The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization
FIRMS The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. Access, Visualization
HiTIDE Use HiTIDE to subset and download popular Level 2 (swath) datasets. Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Downloading
LDOPE Access a range of software tools designed to manipulate, visualize, and analyze MODIS and VIIRS data. Analysis, Visualization
LP DAAC Data Prep Scripts Access a collection of R and Python scripts to download data and perform basic data processing functions.
SOTO State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
TESViS The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. Visualization, Subsetting
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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