NPP/VIIRS First Light Image

  • Released Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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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.

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

VIIRS first light data swath created by NPP/JPSS Mission Team

VIIRS first light data swath created by NPP/JPSS Mission Team

For More Information

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

Credits

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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This page was originally published on Wednesday, November 30, 2011.
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