TY - GEN
T1 - Railroad Valley Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS) as Part of a Global Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet)
AU - Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey
AU - Thome, Kurtis
AU - Wenny, Brian
AU - Anderson, Nikolaus
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 and distributing the Cimel data. The authors would also like to acknowledge NASA for funding this work through research grants NNX16AL25G, NNX16AH44G, and 80NSSC18K0614. We would also like to thank the RadCalNet Working Group for their support and assistance with the distribution of RadCaTS data, as well as support in the uncertainty analysis of RadCaTS data products.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/9/26
Y1 - 2020/9/26
N2 - The Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet) is a coordinated multinational effort to provide in situ data that are suitable for the radiometric calibration and validation of Earth observation sensors that operate in the visible to shortwave infrared solar reflective spectral region (400 nm to 1000 nm). The main goals of RadCalNet are to provide top-of-atmosphere reflectance data to the scientific community, standardize data collection protocols for automated test sites, and to document the SI-traceable uncertainty budgets for each automated test site, of which there are currently four. The data available from RadCalNet are suitable for the calibration and validation of spaceborne imaging spectrometers. The work presented here provides a description of RadCalNet as well as a sample of the current results from the Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS), which is located at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. Selected sensors for comparison include Terra and Aqua MODIS, SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS, and Sentinel-3A and -3B OLCI.
AB - The Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet) is a coordinated multinational effort to provide in situ data that are suitable for the radiometric calibration and validation of Earth observation sensors that operate in the visible to shortwave infrared solar reflective spectral region (400 nm to 1000 nm). The main goals of RadCalNet are to provide top-of-atmosphere reflectance data to the scientific community, standardize data collection protocols for automated test sites, and to document the SI-traceable uncertainty budgets for each automated test site, of which there are currently four. The data available from RadCalNet are suitable for the calibration and validation of spaceborne imaging spectrometers. The work presented here provides a description of RadCalNet as well as a sample of the current results from the Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS), which is located at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. Selected sensors for comparison include Terra and Aqua MODIS, SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS, and Sentinel-3A and -3B OLCI.
KW - RadCaTS
KW - RadCalNet
KW - calibration
KW - imaging spectroscopy
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323665
DO - 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323665
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102017291
T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
SP - 6413
EP - 6416
BT - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020
Y2 - 26 September 2020 through 2 October 2020
ER -