TY - JOUR
T1 - Earth-observing satellite intercomparison using the Radiometric Calibration Test Site at Railroad Valley
AU - Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey
AU - McCorkel, Joel
AU - Anderson, Nikolaus
AU - Biggar, Stuart
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah, Nevada, Office, for their assistance in gaining access to Railroad Valley. The authors would also like to thank Brent Holben and AERONET for processing and distributing the Railroad Valley Cimel data. This work was funded by the following sources: NASA research Grant Nos. NNX14AJ19G, NNX14AP68A, and NNX16AH44G, and USGS cooperative Agreement No. G14AC00371. Finally, the authors would like to thank the reviewers of this paper for their thoughtful comments and suggestions.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - RadCaTS
KW - RadCalNet
KW - calibration
KW - radiometry
KW - reflectance
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1117/1.JRS.12.012004
DO - 10.1117/1.JRS.12.012004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029807204
SN - 1931-3195
VL - 12
JO - Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
JF - Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
IS - 1
M1 - 012004
ER -