VNP02IMG: VIIRS/NPP Imagery Resolution L1B Swath SDR

VIIRS/NPP imagery provides high-resolution swath data at 375 meters for five spectral bands spanning visible to thermal wavelengths. Each product file contains sensor data for a six-minute acquisition window from the Suomi NPP satellite overpass. The data is structured in NetCDF files with a naming convention that encodes the acquisition year, day, hour, minute, and collection number.

Use Cases

• Monitoring land surface temperature based on thermal wavelength bands
• Analyzing vegetation health based on visible and near-infrared (NIR) reflectance
• Assessing cloud cover and atmospheric conditions based on multi-spectral imagery
• Tracking short-term environmental events based on six-minute swath acquisition windows

Strengths

• Provides imagery at a high spatial resolution of 375 meters for five specific bands
• Data is processed and available in a near-real-time (NRT) product stream
• Spectral coverage spans from visible (0.640 µm) to thermal (11.45 µm) wavelengths

Limitations

• Column names and specific data structure within NetCDF files are not described
• Dataset size and row counts are unspecified across all sources
• License is ambiguously listed as 'other-license-specified' without details

Provenance

Source

LANCEMODIS

Collection Method

Generated from processing 6 minutes of VIIRS data acquired during the S-NPP satellite overpass.

Freshness

2026-04-09 21:13:48.023824

Geography

Global swath coverage from the Suomi NPP satellite orbit.