VIIRS-JPSS1 assessment.

pgarnesson · by **pgarnesson** » Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:03 am America/New_York

It is great to have access to VIIRS-JPSS product using the oceancolor service!
Do you provide an assessment/report about it?
Thank you in adavance.
Philippe

OB.DAACx - SeanBailey · by **OB.DAACx - SeanBailey** » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:44 am America/New_York

Our calibration efforts for VIIRS-JPSS1 are very preliminary. We're monitoring it and initial analysis shows that the temporal calibration is rather stable.
We do not yet have enough high quality in situ data to perform a vicarious calibration, so the current gains are based on a cross calibration to VIIRS-SNPP.
Once we've finished our revision to the SNPP calibration, we'll take another look at JPSS1. By then there may be enough information to post an assessment...

Sean

pgarnesson · by **pgarnesson** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:28 am America/New_York

Dear Sean,
thank you for these information. Is there already a schedule for these 2 steps?
Philippe

OB.DAACx - SeanBailey · by **OB.DAACx - SeanBailey** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:30 am America/New_York

No. I try not to give a schedule - because it is rarely met...something always comes up to delay things.
I can say we hope to have the next multi-mission reprocessing done by this summer, so VIIRS-SNPP will be done then, freeing up time for JPSS1.
I'll offer nothing more definitive :grin:

Sean