Description
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) daily surface reflectance Climate Modeling Grid (VJ109CMG) Version 2 product provides an estimate of land surface reflectance from the NOAA-20 VIIRS sensor. Data are provided for three imagery bands (I1-I3) and nine moderate resolution bands (M1-M5, M7, M8, M10, M11) at 0.05 degree (~5,600 meter) resolution. The data are corrected for atmospheric conditions such as the effects of molecular gases, including ozone and water vapor, and for the effects of atmospheric aerosols. This product uses a weighted average of the best quality observation and is formatted as a CMG for use in climate simulation models. This product includes the twelve reflectance bands, five moderate resolution brightness temperature bands (M12-M16) and information layers representing relative azimuth angle, sensor zenith angle, solar zenith angle, reflectance band quality, time of day, and number mapping.
Known Issues
- For complete information about known issues please refer to the MODIS/VIIRS Land Quality Assessment website and in Section 4.0 of the User Guide.
Improvements/Changes from Previous Version
- Improved calibration algorithm and coefficients for entire NOAA-20 mission.
- Improved geolocation accuracy and applied updates to fix outliers around maneuver periods.
- Corrected the aerosol quantity flag (low, average, high) mainly over brighter surfaces in the mid- to high-latitudes such as desert and tropical vegetation areas. This has an impact on the retrieval of other downstream data products such as VNP13 Vegetation Indices and VNP43 Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF)/Albedo.
- Improved cloud mask input product for corrections along coastlines and artifacts from use of coarse resolution climatology data.
- Replaced the land/water mask input product with the eight-class land/water mask from the VNP03 geolocation product that better aligns with MODIS.
- Added secondary day-night flag to improve retrieval of Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) values over daytime pixels.
- More details can be found in this VIIRS Land V2 Changes document.
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Documents
ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD) | The ATBD provides physical theory and mathematical procedures for the calculations used to produce the data products. | |
PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT | The LDOPE Land Product Quality Assessment website provides known issues, maneuvers, and product quality of the land products. | |
SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION | Validation at stage 3 has been achieved for the VIIRS surface reflectance product suite. | |
SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION | Further details regarding VIIRS product validation and maturity status are available from VIIRS Land Product Quality Assessment site. | |
USER'S GUIDE | The technical information in the Version 2.0 User's Guide enables users to interpret and use the data products. |