Topic:S-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for Sept. 14-16, 2015
Date/Time Issued: September 11, 2015 1555Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Suomi- NPP VIIRS Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: September 14, 2015 0600Z
Date/Time of Expected End: September 16, 2015 0300Z
Length of Outage: N/A
Details and Specifics of Change: The VIIRS sensor on Suomi-NPP will be conducting its quarterly emissive band calibration on Sep 14-16th. Due to the VIIRS Blackbody temperature changes during the calibration, the VIIRS science data quality may be affected for certain applications, but the data is expected to remain within specification.
See below for scheduled Blackbody temperature changes.
VIIRS Blackbody Set Point(K) Time (UTC)
297.5 9/14 06:00:00
302.5 9/14 09:00:00
307.5 9/14 12:00:00
312.5 9/14 15:00:00
315.0 9/14 18:00:00
OFF 9/14 21:00:00
272.5 9/15 21:00:00
282.5 9/16 00:00:00
292.5 9/16 03:00:00