Abstract
The radiometric calibration of the sensors on the Landsat series of satellites is a contributing factor to the success of the Landsat data set. The calibration of these sensors has relied on the preflight laboratory work as well as on inflight techniques using on-board calibrators and vicarious techniques. Descriptions of these methods and systems are presented. Results of the on-board calibrators and reflectance-based, ground reference calibrations of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper are presented that indicate the absolute radiometric calibration of bands 1 to 4 should have an uncertainty of less than 5.0 percent. Bands 5 and 7 have slightly higher uncertainties, but should be less than 10 percent. The results also show that the on-board calibrators are of higher precision than the vicarious calibration but that the vicarious calibration results should have higher accuracy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 853-858 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing |
Volume | 63 |
Issue number | 7 |
State | Published - 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computers in Earth Sciences