NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) announced the availability of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 2 Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)/Albedo model parameter product suite. Version 2 includes data products from both the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite and the NOAA-20 satellite which was previously called Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1).
Details on product improvements for Version 2 are provided on the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) landing pages.
A total of 178 products are included in this release. Due to the large file size, each VNP43D and VJ143D product contains just one data layer. A list of all products can be found on the LP DAAC website. Sample citations containing the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for VNP43D01 and VJ143D01 are provided below.
VIIRS/NPP BRDF/Albedo Parameter 1 Band M1 Daily L3 Global 30 ArcSec CMG V002 – VNP43D01
Schaaf, C., Z. Wang, A. Erb, I. Paynter. VIIRS/NPP BRDF/Albedo Parameter 1 Band M1 Daily L3 Global 30ArcSec CMG V002. 2025, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP43D01.002. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.
VIIRS/JPSS1 BRDF/Albedo Parameter 1 Band M1 Daily L3 Global 30 ArcSec CMG V002 – VJ143D01
Schaaf, C., Z. Wang, A. Erb, I. Paynter. VIIRS/JPSS1 BRDF/Albedo Parameter 1 Band M1 Daily L3 Global 30 ArcSec CMG V002. 2025, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VJ143D01.002. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.
The data are available for download through NASA’s Earthdata Search.
Please contact LP DAAC User Services with any questions.