Nasa's Black Marble Product Suite: Validation Strategy

Zhuosen Wang, Miguel O. Roman, Qingsong Sun, Virginia Kalb, Kytt MacManus, Robert E. Ryan, Mary Pagnutti, Dennis Helder
2018 IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium  
NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite (VNP46) is available at 500 m resolution since January 2012 with data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Platform (SNPP). The retrieval algorithm, developed and implemented for routine global processing at NASA's Land Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS), utilizes all high-quality, cloud-free, atmospheric-, terrain-, vegetation-, snow-, lunar-,
more » ... d stray light-corrected radiances to estimate daily nighttime lights (NTL) and other intrinsic surface optical properties. Extensive benchmark tests at representative spatial and temporal scales were conducted on the VNP46 time series record to characterize the uncertainties stemming from upstream data sources. Current and planned validation activities under the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Human Planet Initiative are aimed at evaluating the products at different geographic locations and time periods representing the full range of retrieval conditions.
doi:10.1109/igarss.2018.8518106 dblp:conf/igarss/WangRSKMRPH18 fatcat:dhcjnza6hjhd7e2bavmdvy27ui