Additional VIIRS Version 2 Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, and Thermal Anomalies Products Available In AppEEARS

by **LP DAAC - jwilson** » Wed Jun 17, 2026 1:45 pm America/New_York

Version 3.120 of the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) has been released. This release adds several Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Version 2 data collections, including daily and 8-day Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Emissivity and daily Thermal Anomalies and Fire data from the NOAA-21 satellite (previously called Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-2)) into AppEEARS. The specific products included in this release are listed in the Referenced Datasets section below. A complete listing of data products available in AppEEARS can be found on the Available Products list. Check out additional content for how to use AppEEARS on the Earthdata Website and on the AppEEARS Data Resources GitHub Repository.

About AppEEARS
AppEEARS offers a simple and efficient way to access and transform geospatial data from a variety of federal data archives. By enabling users to subset data spatially, temporally, and by band or layer, it allows them to download only the data they need.

Additional resources for getting started with AppEEARS:

AppEEARS Documentation
API Documentation
Contact User Services with any questions.
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/alerts-outages/additional-viirs-version-2-land-surface-temperature-emissivity-thermal