VIIRS archive on Azure
Blu‑H is moving the VIIRS flood archive to the cloud.
We’re migrating NASA / NOAA VIIRS flood products to Azure and serving them through a STAC catalog on Planetary Computer Pro — so partners and researchers can discover and render the data directly.
Status: MVP build in progress · first product through the pipeline is the VIIRS-ABI Blended Flood (GLB011).
What VIIRS is
A visible / infrared radiometer on Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 — twice-daily global coverage at 375 m / 750 m.
The instrument →What we’re doing
Cloud-optimising the on-prem NetCDFs into a managed STAC catalog, so the on-prem repository can be switched off.
Project goals →Source & licensing
Source data are US-federal public domain (NASA / NOAA / CIMSS); our derivatives are CC0 1.0.
Attribution →Support Blu‑H
Blu‑H is a non-profit (ASBL). This work runs on donated Azure credits and volunteer time — membership and donations keep it going.