Month: February 2016

Suomi-NPP, VIIRS, Day-Night Band (DNB): Moon Phases

by Jorel Torres on February 16th, 2016

By Jorel Torres and Erin Dagg The Suomi-National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite is a prototype for the next generation of Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System (JPSS) series of satellites with JPSS-1 scheduled to launch in early 2017.  One instrument onboard the Suomi-NPP is the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) http://www.jpss.noaa.gov/viirs.html. It has 22 spectral bands Continue Reading

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