Thumbnail Image
Publication

A new view of human activities from space

; 
Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
Citations
Altmetric:
Advisor
Editor
Date
Date Issued
2018-06
Date Submitted
Keywords
Collections
Publications - Payne Institute
Show all metadata
Files
Thumbnail Image
20180629_Elvidge_WorkingPaper.pdf
Adobe PDF, 4.12 MB
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11124/14119
 https://doi.org/10.25676/11124/14119
Embargo Expires
Abstract
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is one of the key instruments onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) spacecraft, which was successfully launched on October 28, 2011. The VIIRS nadir door was opened on November 21, 2011, which enables a new generation of operational moderate resolution-imaging capabilities following the legacy of the AVHRR on NOAA and MODIS on Terra and Aqua satellites. The VIIRS empowers operational environmental monitoring and numerical weather forecasting, with 22 imaging and radiometric bands covering wavelengths from 0.41 to 12.5 microns, providing the sensor data records for more than twenty environmental data records including clouds, sea surface temperature, ocean color, polar wind, vegetation fraction, aerosol, fire, snow and ice, vegetation, and other applications.
Associated Publications
Rights
Copyright of the original work is retained by the author.
Embedded videos