Suomi NPP

Meteorological, climatic, terrestrial, oceanographic, and solar-geophysical applications; global and regional environmental monitoring, search and rescue, data collection.

Launched in:	2011
Repeat cycle:	16 days
Orbit height:	824 km
Orbit type:	Sun Synchronous
Organisation:	NOAA
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (formerly NPOESS-1, NPOESS Preparatory Project - NPP)

Suomi NPP websites

Information

ESA eoPortal - Suomi NPP
NASA Goddard - Suomi NPP and JPSS
NASA - Suomi NPP
NOAA - JPSS mission and instruments
LP DAAC - Suomi NPP VIIRS Product Table
NOAA - JPSS site
NASA - VIIRS Day Night Band (DNB)
Eumetsat - How to access our data

Data ordering

NOAA CLASS
NOAA CLASS - Suomi NPP available data
NOAA - Data Access by Satellite and Instrument
NASA EarthData - Search
NASA Goddard - Ocean Color Web
NASA - LANCE FIRMS Near-real time data
PODAAC - Suomi NPP data

On Board Sensors

ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder)

Band	Wavelength (µm)	Bandwidth (µm)	Resolution (m)	Swath width (km)	Revisit time (days)
Band , 22 bands between 23 to 183 GHz (Microwave)			1500	2300	16

CERES FM-5 (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System)

Band	Wavelength (µm)	Resolution (m)
Band Total radiance (Other)	0.35 to 125	10000 (20000)
Band Short wave (VNIR+SWIR) (SWIR)	0.3 to 5	10000 (20000)
Band Atmospheric window (LW) (TIR)	8 to 12	10000 (20000)

CrIMSS (Cross track Infrared and Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (CrIS + ATMS))

Band	Wavelength (µm)	Resolution (m)
Band LWIR (Other)	0.65 to 1.095	0.0625
Band MWIR (MWIR)	1.21 to 1.75	0.0125
Band SWIR (SWIR)	2.155 to 2.55	0.025

CrIS (Cross-Track Infrared Sounder)

Band	Wavelength (µm)	Resolution (m)	Swath width (km)	Revisit time (days)
Band SWIR, 159 channels (SWIR)	3.92 to 4.64	14000	2300	16
Band MWIR, 433 channels (MWIR)	5.7 to 8.62	14000	2300	16
Band TIR, 713 channels (TIR)	9.1 to 15.3	14000	2300	16

OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite)

Band	Wavelength (µm)	Bandwidth (µm)	Resolution (m)	Swath width (km)	Revisit time (days)
Band Nadir Mapper (Other)	0.3 to 0.38			50
Band Nadir Profiler (Other)	0.25 to 0.31			50

VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imager and Radiometer Suite)

Band	Wavelength (µm)	Bandwidth (µm)	Resolution (m)	Swath width (km)
Band M1 (VIS)	0.412	0.02	750	3000
Band M2 (VIS)	0.445	0.018	750	3000
Band M3 (VIS)	0.448	0.02	750	3000
Band M4 (VIS)	0.555	0.02	750	3000
Band l1 (Other)	0.64	0.05	375	3000
Band M5 (VIS)	0.672	0.02	750	3000
Band M6 (VIS)	0.746	0.015	750	3000
Band l2 (Other)	0.865	0.039	375	3000
Band M7 (NIR)	0.865	0.039	750	3000
Band DNB (Day/Night Band) (Other)	0.7	0.4	375	3000
Band M8 (SWIR)	1.24	0.02	750	3000
Band M9 (SWIR)	1.378	0.015	750	3000
Band l3 (Other)	1.61	0.06	375	3000
Band M10 (SWIR)	1.61	0.06	750	3000
Band M11 (SWIR)	2.25	0.05	750	3000
Band l4 (Other)	3.74	0.38	375	3000
Band M12 (MWIR)	3.7	0.18	750	3000
Band M13 (MWIR)	4.05	0.155	750	3000
Band M14 (TIR)	8.55	0.3	750	3000
Band M15 (TIR)	10.763	1	750	3000
Band l5 (Other)	11.45	1.9	375	3000
Band M16 (TIR)	12.013	0.95	750	3000

Suomi NPP

Suomi NPP websites

On Board Sensors

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