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Earth-observing satellite intercomparison using the Radiometric Calibration Test Site at Railroad Valley

This paper describes the current ground-based calibration results of Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI), Terra and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and Sentinel-2A Multispectral Instrument (MSI), using an automated suite of instruments located at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. The period of this study is 2012 to 2016 for MODIS, VIIRS, and ETM+, 2013 to 2016 for OLI, and 2015 to 2016 for MSI. The current results show that all sensors agree with the Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS) to within +/- 5% in the solar-reflective regime, except for one band on VIIRS that is within +/- 6%. In the case of ETM+ and OLI, the agreement is within +/- 3%, and, in the case of MODIS, the agreement is within +/- 3.5%. MSI agrees with RadCaTS to within +/- 4.5% in all applicable bands. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/626561
Date16 September 2017
CreatorsCzapla-Myers, Jeffrey, McCorkel, Joel, Anderson, Nikolaus, Biggar, Stuart
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Coll Opt Sci, Remote Sensing Grp, University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Remote Sensing Group, Tucson, Arizona, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, Maryland, University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Remote Sensing Group, Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Remote Sensing Group, Tucson, Arizona
PublisherSPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Rights© The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Relationhttps://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-applied-remote-sensing/volume-12/issue-01/012004/Earth-observing-satellite-intercomparison-using-the-Radiometric-Calibration-Test-Site/10.1117/1.JRS.12.012004.full

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