TY - JOUR
T1 - The NPOESS VIIRS day/night visible sensor
AU - Lee, Thomas E.
AU - Miller, Steven D.
AU - Turk, F. Joseph
AU - Schueler, Carl
AU - Julian, Richard
AU - Deyo, Steve
AU - Dills, Patrick
AU - Wang, Sherwood
PY - 2006/2
Y1 - 2006/2
N2 - The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) will feature the Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), a 22-channel imager that will contribute to nearly half of the NPOESS environmental data records. Included on VIIRS will be the Day/ Night band (DNB), a visible channel designed to image the Earth and its atmosphere in all conditions ranging from bright solar illumination, to nocturnal lunar illumination, and negligible external illumination. Drawing heritage from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) instruments orbiting since the late 1960s, the DNB will be used to detect clouds at night, understand patterns of urban development based on the emissions of cities, monitor fires, and image scenes of snow and ice at the surface of the Earth. Thanks to significant engineering improvements, the DNB will produce superior capabilities to the OLS for a number of new applications.
AB - The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) will feature the Visible-Infrared Imager-Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), a 22-channel imager that will contribute to nearly half of the NPOESS environmental data records. Included on VIIRS will be the Day/ Night band (DNB), a visible channel designed to image the Earth and its atmosphere in all conditions ranging from bright solar illumination, to nocturnal lunar illumination, and negligible external illumination. Drawing heritage from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) instruments orbiting since the late 1960s, the DNB will be used to detect clouds at night, understand patterns of urban development based on the emissions of cities, monitor fires, and image scenes of snow and ice at the surface of the Earth. Thanks to significant engineering improvements, the DNB will produce superior capabilities to the OLS for a number of new applications.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33645036876
U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-87-2-191
DO - 10.1175/BAMS-87-2-191
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645036876
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 87
SP - 191
EP - 199
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 2
ER -