NASA Water Reservoir Products
Product User GuidePI - Huilin Gao (Texas A&M University)
Product ATBD
Generation of the VIIRS Water Reservoir Product
The NASA VIIRS Water Reservoir Product provides data for 164 global reservoirs, which includes:
- 8-day reservoir area, elevation, and storage values
- Monthly reservoir area, elevation, storage, evaporation rate, and evaporation volume values
The algorithm is based on the algorithm used for the Collection 6.1 MODIS Global Water Reservoir Product, with some refinements made to improve the performance (e.g., terrain shadow). The primary VIIRS inputs are the NIR reflectance data (VNP09H1/VJ109H1) and the LST data (VNP21A2/VJ121A2).
The Global Water Reservoir Product is a new VIIRS SNPP/JPSS1 product within VIIRS Collection 2.
Product Details and DAAC links
| Product Name | SNPP | JPSS-1 |
|---|---|---|
| Reservoir area, elevation, and storage 8-day L3 500 m | VNP28C2 | VJ128C2 |
| Area, elevation, storage, evaporation rate, volumetric evaporation Monthly L3 500 m | VNP28C3 | VJ128C3 |
