The NPOESS VIIRS Day/Night Visible Sensor

By Thomas Lee, Steven D. Miller, F. J. Turk, C. Schueler, R. Julian, S. Deyo, P. Dills, Sherwood R. Wang. 2006

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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• Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011 (2013, unknown): “onboard Advanced Land Observation Satellite [41–45].”
• Multisensor profiling of a concentric gravity wave event propagating from the troposphere to the ionosphere (2015, background): “The Day/Night Band (DNB) sensor onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite, launched in 2011 as part of the Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), provides satellite-based sensing of the nocturnal environment [Lee et al., 2006; Miller et al., 2013a, 2013b].”
• Evaluating the Ability of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data to Estimate the Gross Domestic Product and the Electric Power Consumption of China at Multiple Scales: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Data (2014, methodology): “VIIRS day/night band data collected on nights with zero moonlight during 18–26 April 2012 and 11–23 October 2012 was composited into a single dataset [31,41–44].”
• Early On-Orbit Performance of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite (2014, background): “reflected solar- and/or moon-visible radiation with a large dynamic range of 45 000 000:1, which enables the detection of reflected signals from as low as quarter moon illumination to the brightest daylight [4], [11].”
• Illuminating the Capabilities of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (2013, background): “An important enhancement is the Day/Night Band (DNB; [2]), which in addition to conventional daytime visible imaging provides a unique ability to sense extremely low-levels of visible/near-infrared light at night down to levels more than 10 million times fainter than reflected”