The ESO/VISTA Public Survey VIKING is a wide area (final coverage of about 1350 sq. degrees), intermediate depth (5-sigma detection limit J~21 on Vega system), near infrared imaging survey in five broadband filters Z, Y, J, H, Ks. The sky coverage has a maximum overlap with the KiDS survey in the optical bands.

This new release of VIKING data, the third, covers all of the highest quality data (images and single-band source lists) taken since the start of the survey in November 2009 and up to March 2015. It contains 736 VISTA images, of which 662 with coverage in all five VIKING filters, 647 with deep co-add in J and an additional 74 with at least two filters. These 736 fields cover an area of 1104 sq. degrees in total.

The aperture matched multi-band catalogue includes a total of about 74 million sources, with magnitudes in the NIR bands of the survey, colours and additional parameters providing information on the nature of each source detection.

Data can be browsed and downloaded from the ESO Science Archive using the Phase 3 query form. More information about this data release are available in the associated release description.