{"id":9229,"date":"2011-11-22T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2019-05-16T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:22:07","slug":"viirs-images-from-the-nasa-npp-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9229","title":{"rendered":"Early VIIRS images from the NASA NPP Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/viirs_true_20111121_t16_enh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true color image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/111121_npp_viirs_pass_1.jpg\" alt=\"NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true color image\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/npp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/viirs.html\">VIIRS<\/a><\/strong> instrument on NASA&#8217;s recently-launched <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/npp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">NPP<\/a><\/strong> satellite began to acquire imagery on 21 November 2011 (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/NPP\/news\/viirs-firstlight.html\">NASA news release<\/a><\/strong>). True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from two of the early satellite passes are shown, which cover a swath from Brazil to eastern Canada from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/npp\/SA2011_11_21_325_npp.gif\">16:10 to 16:35 UTC<\/a><\/strong> <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> and another swath covering much of eastern North America from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/npp\/na2011_11_21_325_npp.gif\">18:00 to 18:15 UTC<\/a><\/strong> <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/viirs_true_20111121_t18_enh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true color image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/111121_npp_viirs_pass_2.jpg\" alt=\"NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true color image\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A VIIRS RGB image covering parts of western Australia from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/npp\/AUSTRALIA2011_11_22_326_npp.gif\">05:35 to 05:45 UTC<\/a><\/strong> on 22 November can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/viirs_true_20111122_t05_enh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true color image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/111122_npp_viirs_pass_1.jpg\" alt=\"NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true color image\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Images created at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin-Madison by the NASA NPP Atmosphere PEATE Team.<\/p>\n<p>Technical notes:<br \/>\n&#8211; Produced by Liam Gumley and Willem Marais (SSEC)<br \/>\n&#8211; SDR products ingested from the NPP SD3E by Bruce Flynn, Steve Dutcher, and Greg Quinn (SSEC)<br \/>\n&#8211; VIIRS M-bands SVM05, SVM04, SVM03 (red, green, blue)<br \/>\n&#8211; 1000 meter resolution, Cylindrical Equidistant projection<br \/>\n&#8211; Atmospheric correction algorithm by Jacques Descloitres (Formerly GSFC)<br \/>\n&#8211; Reprojection algorithm by Terry Haran (NSIDC)<\/p>\n<p>Additional NPP VIIRS images can be found on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/projects\/npp\/\">VIIRS Imagery and Visualization Team<\/a><\/strong> site at CIRA\/RAMMB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VIIRS instrument on NASA&#8217;s recently-launched NPP satellite began to acquire imagery on 21 November 2011 (NASA news release). True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from two of the early satellite passes are shown, which cover a swath from Brazil to eastern Canada from 16:10 to 16:35 UTC (above) and another swath covering much of eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33252,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions\/33252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}