VNP21A1N.002: Night Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Daily 1km

Dataset Availability: 2012-01-19T00:00:00Z–2024-12-24T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider: NASA LP DAAC at the USGS EROS Center
Earth Engine Snippet: ee.ImageCollection("NASA/VIIRS/002/VNP21A1N")

Cadence: 1 Day
Tags: daily land nasa night noaa surface temperature viirs

Description

The NASA Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) Night Version 1 product (VNP21A1N) is compiled daily from nighttime Level 2 Gridded (L2G) intermediate products.

The L2G process maps the daily VNP21 swath granules onto a sinusoidal MODIS grid and stores all observations overlapping a gridded cell for a given night. The VNP21A1 algorithm sorts through all these observations for each cell and estimates the final LST value as an average from all cloud-free observations that have good LST accuracies. Only observations having observation coverage more than a certain threshold (15%) are considered for this averaging.

Documentation:

Bands

Resolution
1000 meters

Bands

Name	Units	Description
`LST_1KM`	K	Daily 1 km Land Surface Temperature.
`QC`		Daily Quality control for LST and emissivity
Bitmask for QC Bits 0-1: Mandatory QA flags 0: Pixel produced, good quality, no further QA info necessary 1: Pixel produced but unreliable quality 2: Pixel not produced due to cloud 3: Pixel not produced due to reasons other than cloud Bits 2-3: Data quality flag 0: Good data quality of L1B bands 14, 15, 16 1: Missing pixel 2: Fairly calibrated 3: Poorly calibrated, TES processing skipped Bits 4-5: Cloud Flag 0: Cloud-free 1: Thin cirrus 2: Pixel within 2 pixels of nearest cloud 3: Cloudy pixels Bits 6-7: Iterations 0: Slow convergence 1: Nominal 2: Nominal 3: Fast Bits 8-9: Atmospheric Opacity 0: ≥3 (Warm, humid air; or cold land) 1: 0.2 - 0.3 (Nominal value) 2: 0.1 - 0.2 (Nominal value) 3: <0.1 (Dry, or high altitude pixel) Bits 10-11: MMD 0: >0.15 (Most silicate rocks) 1: 0.1 - 0.15 (Rocks, sand, some soils) 2: 0.03 - 0.1 (Mostly soils, mixed pixel) 3: <0.03 (Vegetation, snow, water, ice, some soils) Bits 12-13: Emissivity accuracy 0: >0.02 (Poor performance) 1: 0.015 - 0.02 (Marginal performance) 2: 0.01 - 0.015 (Good performance) 3: <0.01 (Excellent performance) Bits 14-15: LST accuracy 0: >2K (Poor performance) 1: 1.5 - 2K (Marginal performance) 2: 1 - 1.5K (Good performance) 3: <1K (Excellent performance)
`Emis_14`		Daily M14 emissivity
`Emis_15`		Daily M15 emissivity
`Emis_16`		Daily M16 emissivity
`View_Angle`	deg	View zenith angle of LST
`View_Time`	h	Time of LST observation

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DOIs

https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP21A1N.002

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('NASA/VIIRS/002/VNP21A1N')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2022-11-01', '2022-12-01'));

var visualization = {
  bands: ['LST_1KM'],
  min: [150],
  max: [300],
  palette: [
    'a50026',
    'd73027',
    'f46d43',
    'fdae61',
    'fee08b',
    'ffffbf',
    'd9ef8b',
    'a6d96a',
    '66bd63',
    '1a9850',
    '006837',
  ]
};
Map.setCenter(41.2, 38.84, 3);
Map.addLayer(dataset, visualization, 'LST');

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VNP21A1N.002: Night Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Daily 1km

NASA/VIIRS/002/VNP21A1N, daily,land,nasa,night,noaa,surface,temperature,viirs

2012-01-19T00:00:00Z/2024-12-24T00:00:00Z

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https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP21A1N.002