VIIRS L2 banding issue

starbright · by **starbright** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 5:23 pm America/New_York

I downloaded Level-2 viirs data, but got severe banding issues for a significant portion of granules. The width of bands WITHOUT data is about 1/3 to 1/2 of the width of bands WITH data. Wondering what they were?

by **OB SeaDAS - dshea** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:52 am America/New_York

If you are talking about missing data on the outside 1/2 ish of each scan, that is a "feature" of VIIRS. The overlapping data of the bowtie region of the scan is not transmitted from VIIRS to the ground. If you map the data you will get complete spacial coverage.

don

starbright · by **starbright** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:19 pm America/New_York

I think you are right. Thanks.