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Earthdata resources for users working with NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data include tutorials and other learning resources, news announcements such as instrument updates and data releases, user guides and related documents, and frequently asked questions.

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LAADS webinar

Learn How to View and Download Data from LAADS DAAC

Join us to learn how to search and order datasets from NASA's Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System Distributed Active Archive Center (LAADS DAAC). Subsetting, reprojection, and data output post-processing operations in the Find Data tool will also be featured.
Webinar
May 18, 2022
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VIIRS News

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True color corrected reflectance image from the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 satellite overlaid with IMERG Precipitation Rate showing heavy rains over Texas on 22 August 2022

Heavy Rains over Texas, USA

Image captured on Aug 22, 2022, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Aug. 23, 2022
Red fire points indicating the presence of oil rigs in Campeche Bay, Mexico on August 1, 2022 as captured by VIIRS instrument aboard joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-2 satellite.

Oil Rigs in Campeche Bay, Mexico

Image captured on Aug 1, 2022, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Aug. 2, 2022
Satellite image of fires on Earth

How to Customize the Fires Displayed in FIRMS

Learn how to change the colors of the fires/thermal anomalies, change the fire pixel size, show only day or night detections, and color code fires by fire radiative power, confidence, or time since detection.
Blog
July 24, 2022
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