Assessment of the Reprocessed Suomi NPP VIIRS Enterprise Cloud Mask Product

Lin, Lin; Hao, Xianjun; Zhang, Bin; Zou, Cheng-Zhi; Cao, Changyong

doi:10.3390/rs13132502

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Assessment of the Reprocessed Suomi NPP VIIRS Enterprise Cloud Mask Product

2021
By Lin, Lin ; Hao, Xianjun ; Zhang, Bin ; ...

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Journal Title:

Remote Sensing
Personal Author:

Lin, Lin ; Hao, Xianjun ; Zhang, Bin ; Zou, Cheng-Zhi ; Cao, Changyong
NOAA Program & Office:

NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; CISESS (Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies)
Description:

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite continually provides global observations used to retrieve over 20 VIIRS Environmental Data Record (EDR) products. Among them, the cloud mask product is essential for many other VIIRS EDR products such as aerosols, ocean color, and active fire. The reprocessed S-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data Record (SDR) data produced by NOAA/Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) have shown improved stability and consistency. Recently, the VIIRS Enterprise Cloud Mask (ECM) has been reprocessed using the reprocessed VIIRS SDR data. This study assesses the reprocessed ECM product by comparing the reprocessed cloud mask types and cloud probability with those from the operational VIIRS ECM product.
Keywords:

Assessment Of Reprocessed Cloud Mask Types And Cloud Probabilities SNPP VIIRS Cloud Mask Reprocessing
Source:

Remote Sens. 2021, 13(13), 2502
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132502
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

Grant no. NA19NES4320002
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CC BY
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