Topic: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Emissive Band Calibration scheduled for March 16-18, 2015
Date/Time Issued: March 13, 2015 1320 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 16, 2015 0600 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: March 18, 2015 0300 UTC
Length of Outage: N/A
Details/Specifics of Change: The VIIRS sensor on Suomi-NPP will be conducting its quarterly emissive band calibration on March 16-18th. Due to the VIIRS Blackbody temperature changes during the calibration, the VIIRS science data quality may be affected for certain applications, but the data is expected to remain within specification.
See below for scheduled Blackbody temperature changes.
VIIRS Blackbody Set Point(K) Time (UTC)
297.5 03/16 06:00:00
302.5 03/16 09:00:00
307.5 03/16 12:00:00
312.5 03/16 15:00:00
315.0 03/16 18:00:00
OFF 03/16 21:00:00
272.5 03/17 21:00:00
282.5 03/18 00:00:00
292.5 03/18 03:00:00