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The VIIRS/JPSS2 Active Fires 6-Min L2 Swath 375m NRT with short-name VNP14IMG_NRT is a Near Real Time (NRT) active fire detection data product (Schroeder 2014). The product is built on the EOS/MODIS fire product heritage [Kaufman et al., 1998; Giglio et al., 2003], using a multi-spectral contextual algorithm to identify sub-pixel fire activity and other thermal anomalies in the Level 1 (swath) input data. The algorithm uses all five 375 m VIIRS channels to detect fires and separate land, water, and cloud pixels in the image. Additional 750 m channels complement the available VIIRS multispectral data. Those channels are used as input to the baseline active fire detection product, which provides continuity to the EOS/MODIS 1 km Fire and Thermal Anomalies product.
The VIIRS 375 m fire detection data is a 6-min Level 2 swath product based on the input Science Data Record (SDR) Level 1 swath format. The NRT product is currently available through NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). The data are formatted as NetCDF4 files. For more information read VIIRS 375 m Active Fire Algorithm User Guide at https://earthdata.nasa.gov/files/VIIRS_375m_Users_guide_Dec15_v2.pdf and Schroeder, W., Oliva, P., Giglio, L., & Csiszar, I. A. (2014). The New VIIRS 375m active fire detection data product: algorithm description and initial assessment. Remote Sensing of Environment, 143, 85-96. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.12.008 PDF from UMD or visit University of Maryland VIIRS Active Fire Web page at http://viirsfire.geog.umd.edu/
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LANCEMODIS. 2024. VIIRS/JPSS2 Active Fires 6-Min L2 Swath 375m NRT. NASA GSFC LANCE: LANCEMODIS. https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VJ214IMG_NRT.002.