TY - GEN
T1 - Post-launch radiometric calibration of the GOES-16 and GOES-17 Advanced Baseline Imager
AU - Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey S.
AU - Anderson, Nikolaus J
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tonopah, Nevada, office for their assistance and permission in using Railroad Valley, and also AERONET for processing the Cimel data. The authors would also like to acknowledge NASA for funding this work through research grants NNX16AQ70G, 80NSSC20K1872, and NNX16AL25G, as well as USGS through research cooperative agreement G20AC00003.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The GOES-16 satellite was launched on 19 Nov 2016, and it became operational as the GOES-East satellite on 18 Dec 2017. The GOES-17 satellite was launched on 1 Mar 2018, and it became the GOES-West operational satellite on 12 Feb 2019. The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is one of six instruments onboard GOES-16 and GOES-17. It has 16 multispectral bands in the 0.45 µm to 13.56 µm wavelength range. This study is focused on bands 1–3, 5, and 6, which reside in the solar-reflective region (0.4 µm to 2.5 µm). The five bands used in this work have spatial resolutions of 500 m (band 2), 1000 m (1, 3, and 5), and 2000 m (band 6). The geosynchronous orbit of GOES provides a unique opportunity for the Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS), which is an automated facility at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. RadCaTS consists of ground-based instruments that measure the surface reflectance and atmosphere throughout the day. It was developed by the Remote Sensing Group of the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona (UArizona), and it is currently used to monitor such low-Earth orbit (LEO) sensors as Landsat 7 ETM+, Landsat 8 OLI, Terra and Aqua MODIS, Sentinel-2A and -2B MSI, SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS, and others. The improved spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics of ABI create an excellent opportunity to intercompare results obtained from a geosynchronous sensor to those obtained from typical LEO sensors.
AB - The GOES-16 satellite was launched on 19 Nov 2016, and it became operational as the GOES-East satellite on 18 Dec 2017. The GOES-17 satellite was launched on 1 Mar 2018, and it became the GOES-West operational satellite on 12 Feb 2019. The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is one of six instruments onboard GOES-16 and GOES-17. It has 16 multispectral bands in the 0.45 µm to 13.56 µm wavelength range. This study is focused on bands 1–3, 5, and 6, which reside in the solar-reflective region (0.4 µm to 2.5 µm). The five bands used in this work have spatial resolutions of 500 m (band 2), 1000 m (1, 3, and 5), and 2000 m (band 6). The geosynchronous orbit of GOES provides a unique opportunity for the Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS), which is an automated facility at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. RadCaTS consists of ground-based instruments that measure the surface reflectance and atmosphere throughout the day. It was developed by the Remote Sensing Group of the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona (UArizona), and it is currently used to monitor such low-Earth orbit (LEO) sensors as Landsat 7 ETM+, Landsat 8 OLI, Terra and Aqua MODIS, Sentinel-2A and -2B MSI, SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS, and others. The improved spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics of ABI create an excellent opportunity to intercompare results obtained from a geosynchronous sensor to those obtained from typical LEO sensors.
KW - ABI
KW - GOES
KW - RadCaTS
KW - RadCalNet
KW - Radiometric calibration
KW - Surface reflectance
KW - Validation
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2594873
DO - 10.1117/12.2594873
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85117013670
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Earth Observing Systems XXVI
A2 - Butler, James J.
A2 - Xiong, Xiaoxiong
A2 - Gu, Xingfa
PB - SPIE
T2 - Earth Observing Systems XXVI 2021
Y2 - 1 August 2021 through 5 August 2021
ER -