Earth ID: 3888

NPP/VIIRS First Light Image

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on November 30, 2011

On November 21, 2011 the first measurements from the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on NASA's National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite were acquired. These still images show one of the instrument's data swaths. The first image shows the data swath wrapped to a globe for context. The second image shows the data swath in a cartesian projection.
This image was produced using VIIRS M-bands SVM05, SVM04, SVM03 (red, green, blue) at 1000 meter resolution.

NPP/VIIRS first light image showing Eastern United States and Western Atlantic. Data swath is wrapped to a globe for context.

For More Information

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/viirs-firstlight.html

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Producer
Silvia Stoyanova (USRA): Producer
James Gleason (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

Please give credit for this item to:
NPP/JPSS Mission Team and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Data swath created at the Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison by the NASA NPP Atmosphere PEATE Team. - Produced by Liam Gumley and Willem Marais (SSEC) - SDR products ingested from the NPP SD3E by Bruce Flynn, Steve Dutcher, and Greg Quinn (SSEC) - Atmospheric correction algorithm by Jacques Descloitres (Formerly GSFC) - Reprojection algorithm by Terry Haran (NSIDC)

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Missions:
NPP
Suomi NPP

Data Used:

Suomi NPP/VIIRS also referred to as: VIIRS

11/21/2011

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Keywords:
SVS >> First Light
SVS >> NPP
NASA Science >> Earth