NPP/VIIRS First Light Image
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.
VIIRS first light data swath created by NPP/JPSS Mission Team
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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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Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Producers
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
- Silvia Stoyanova (USRA)
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Scientist
- James Gleason (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, November 30, 2011.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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VIIRS [Suomi NPP: VIIRS]
ID: 722
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