Description
The daily NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire (VNP14A1) Version 2 data product provides daily information about active fires and other thermal anomalies. The VNP14A1 data product is a global, 1 kilometer (km) gridded composite of fire pixels detected from VIIRS 750 meter (m) bands over a daily (24-hour) period. The VNP14 data products are designed after the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies/Fire product suite.
The VNP14A1 product provides a total of four Science Dataset (SDS) layers for the confidence of fire, maximum fire radiative power (FRP), quality assessment (QA), and position of fire within scan. Each data product file is provided in HDF-EOS5 format. A low resolution browse is also provided showing the fire mask layer with a color map applied in JPEG format.
Known Issues
- For complete information about known issues please refer to the MODIS/VIIRS Land Quality Assessment website.
Improvements/Changes from Previous Versions
- Improved calibration algorithm and coefficients for entire Suomi NPP 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.
- More details can be found in this VIIRS Land V2 Changes document.
Product Summary
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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. | |
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION | The File Specification provides a description of the product file including Scientific Data Sets and their attributes. | |
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 | Further details regarding VIIRS product validation and maturity status are available from VIIRS Land Product Quality Assessment site. | |
SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION | Validation at stage 1 has been achieved for the VIIRS Active Fire product suite. |