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VIIRS Version 2 Water Reservoir Products Released

Data Release
Issued
Jan. 10, 2024
Resolved

NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) announced the availability of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 2 Water Reservoir product suite. The VIIRS Version 2 release 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). These collections will continue to grow as data are produced chronologically. Details for these products are provided on the digital object identifier (DOI) landing pages.

Citations

A citation containing the DOI for each VIIRS Version 2 Water Reservoir dataset is provided below:

VIIRS/NPP Water Reservoir Area 8-day L3 Global V002 – VNP28C2
Gao, H.. VIIRS/NPP Water Reservoir Area 8-day L3 Global V002. 2024, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP28C2.002. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

VIIRS/NPP Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V002 – VNP28C3
Gao, H.. VIIRS/NPP Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V002. 2024, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP28C3.002. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

VIIRS/JPSS1 Water Reservoir Area 8-day L3 Global V002 – VJ128C2
Gao, H.. VIIRS/JPSS1 Water Reservoir Area 8-day L3 Global V002. 2024, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VJ128C2.002. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

VIIRS/JPSS1 Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V002 – VJ128C3
Gao, H.. VIIRS/JPSS1 Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V002. 2024, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VJ128C3.002. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

The data are hosted on NASA’s Earthdata Cloud and are available for download through Earthdata Search.

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Details

Last Updated

June 2, 2025

Published

Jan. 10, 2024

Data Center/Project

Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC)