True color bands are provided from VIIRS on both S-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS spacecraft. These top-of-atmosphere products are generated from the emissive bands (M-bands) for wavelengths corresponding to Red, Green, and Blue and are provided in CoastWatch HDF and PNG daily composite mapped regions
Data Access
| Data Tool Links | CoastWatch Near Real-time Search CoastWatch Granule Selector Tool (L2 unmapped) |
Product Overview
File variable contents include the following and are compatible with the CoastWatch Utilities:
| EV_BandM3 | mW cm-2 um-1 sr-1 |
| EV_BandM4 | mW cm-2 um-1 sr-1 |
| EV_BandM5 | mW cm-2 um-1 sr-1 |
| latitude | degrees |
| longitude | degrees |
| graphics |
Product Details
Short Names
VIIRS_L3
Temporal Coverage
Near real-time + 3 days
Product Families
True Color Imagery
Measurements
True Color Imagery (RGB)
Processing Levels
Level 3
Spatial Coverage
Latency Groups
0 Hours <= 24 Hours (NRT)
Latency Details
Near real-time + 3 days
Spatial Resolution Groups
2km+
Spatial Resolution Details
2km (2.3163 km or 0.02°)
Instruments
Data Providers
Copernicus
NOAA
CoastWatch
