Mission Notice MN022587 OPEN - Suomi-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for June 17-19, 2015
Description_Title: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for June 17-19, 2015
MN_ID: MN022587
Date_Time: 2015-06-15 16:48:14
Mission_Notice_Text: Mission Notice Status: New
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 17, 2015 0600 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: June 19, 2015 0300 UTC
Length of Outage: N/A
Details/Specifics of Change: The VIIRS sensor on Suomi-NPP will be conducting its quarterly emissive band calibration on June 17-19th. 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 6/17 06:00:00
302.5 6/17 09:00:00
307.5 6/17 12:00:00
312.5 6/17 15:00:00
315.0 6/17 18:00:00
OFF 6/17 21:00:00
272.5 6/18 21:00:00
282.5 6/19 00:00:00
292.5 6/19 03:00:00