Day: October 31, 2018

DNB: Ship Light Monitoring and Sea Ice Motion

by Jorel Torres on October 31st, 2018

The Day/Night Band (DNB) utilizes a sun/moon reflectance model that illuminates atmospheric features, and senses emitted and reflected light sources during the nighttime hours. The DNB is at 0.7um and is apart of 22 spectral channels on-board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite and the new NOAA-20 satellite. In the DNB video below (using Continue Reading

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