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Data Set ID:
VJ129
Data Set Summary:
This data set reports the location of sea ice cover derived from radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Joint Polar Satellite System's first satellite (JPSS-1). Following the approach used by MODIS, sea ice is detected using the Normalized Difference Snow Index.