Abstract
“This is not your father's low‐light sensor,” Steve Miller, senior research scientist and deputy director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, said at a 5 December news briefing at the AGU Fall Meeting. He and others at the briefing were showing off the nighttime sensing capability of the day/night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) of instruments onboard the Suomi National Polar‐orbiting Partnership (NPP) Earth‐observing research satellite, a joint NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite that was launched on 28 October 2011. Noting that low‐light satellite technology has been available for about 40 years, Miller said that the VIIRS day/night band “is truly a paradigm shift in the technology and capability.”
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