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General description
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is one of the key environmental remote-sensing instruments that was successfully launched on 28th October 2011 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. It is a standard near real-time imagery developed to provide natural-looking images by removing gross atmospheric effects such as Rayleigh scattering from the visible band.
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Limitations
VIIRS has 2 major shortcomings: Firstly is the inability to derive temperature, source size, and RH for weak detections made on small gas flares.
The second, shortcoming arises from the temporal sampling limitations of the VIIRS instrument.VIIRS collects global data every night, but the dwell time of VIIRS on a flaring site is a fraction of a second. This under-sampling lowers the probability of detection and decreases the accuracy of flared gas estimates for flares with highly variable flared gas volumes.