Calibration/Validation of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometers and Applications

by MDPI AG

Overview

In a new era of global awareness and globalization, what’s happening around the world in real-time such as hurricanes, volcanic eruption, fires, drought, pollution, and other environmental and climate challenges are becoming increasingly more important and affect people’s lives. To meet these challenges, Earth observations from a new generation of satellites have now become available giving us unprecedented capabilities to monitor and study our planet. With global coverage twice daily for the next several decades, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometers on polar orbiting satellites provide rich and publically available data sets for a large number of land, atmosphere, and ocean applications, including the monitoring of aerosols, cloud properties, radiation budget, sea surface temperature, ocean color, active fire, albedo, snow and ice, vegetation, land use/land cover, night-lights from human activities, and natural disasters. Calibration and validation of these satellite observations are essential to ensure the quality, accuracy, precision, and stability of the data for the applications. This book will review recent advances in satellite optical sensor calibration and validation methodologies, algorithms, and techniques. Example calibration and validation of environmental data products are also discussed. It aims to serve all professionals, researchers, students, scientists alike in academics, industries, government, and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783038423188
Publisher:	MDPI AG
Publication date:	02/13/2017
Pages:	558
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.52(d)

Table of Contents

1) Assessment of S-NPP VIIRS On-Orbit Radiometric Calibration and Performance

2) VIIRS Reflective Solar Bands Calibration Progress and Its Impact on Ocean

Color Products

3) Comparison of the Calibration Algorithms and SI Traceability of MODIS, VIIRS, GOES, and

GOES-R ABI Sensors

4) An Overview of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Science Data Product Calibration

and Validation

5) User Validation of VIIRS Satellite Imagery

6) Spectral Dependent Degradation of the Solar Diffuser on Suomi-NPP VIIRS Due to Surface

Roughness-Induced Rayleigh Scattering

7) Suomi NPP VIIRS Reflective Solar Bands Operational Calibration Reprocessing

8) Soumi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band Stray Light Characterization and Correction Using Calibration

View Data

9) Assessing the Effects of Suomi NPP VIIRS M15/M16 Detector Radiometric Stability and Relative

Spectral Response Variation on Striping

10) JPSS-1 VIIRS Radiometric Characterization and Calibration Based on Pre-Launch Testing

11) Pre-Launch Radiometric Characterization of JPSS-1 VIIRS Thermal Emissive Bands

12) JPSS-1 VIIRS Pre-Launch Response versus Scan Angle Testing and Performance

13) Inter-Comparison of S-NPP VIIRS and Aqua MODIS Thermal Emissive Bands Using Hyperspectral

Infrared Sounder Measurements as a Transfer Reference

14) Preliminary Inter-Comparison between AHI, VIIRS and MODIS Clear-Sky Ocean Radiances for

Accurate SST Retrievals

15) Radiometric Inter-Calibration between Himawari-8 AHI and S-NPP VIIRS for the Solar

Reflective Bands

16) Fast and Accurate Collocation of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Measurements

with Cross-Track Infrared Sounder

17) Improved Band-to-Band Registration Characterization for VIIRS Reflective Solar Bands Based on

Lunar Observations

18) Radiometric Stability Monitoring of the Suomi NPP Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

(VIIRS) Reflective Solar Bands Using the Moon

19) Monitoring the NOAA Operational VIIRS RSB and DNB Calibration Stability Using Monthly and

Semi-Monthly Deep Convective Clouds Time Series

20) Evaluation of VIIRS and MODIS Thermal Emissive Band Calibration Stability Using Ground Target

21) Using Ground Targets to Validate S-NPP VIIRS Day-Night Band Calibration

22) Spectral Cross-Calibration of VIIRS Enhanced Vegetation Index with MODIS: A Case Study Using

Year-Long Global Data

23) Retrieval of Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation

(FAPAR) from VIIRS Time-Series Data

24) Quality Assessment of S-NPP VIIRS Land Surface Temperature Product

25) Validation of S-NPP VIIRS Sea Surface Temperature Retrieved from NAVO

26) The Potential of Autonomous Ship-Borne Hyperspectral Radiometers for the Validation of Ocean

Color Radiometry Data

27) Validation of the Suomi NPP VIIRS Ice Surface Temperature Environmental

Data Record

28) An Investigation of a Novel Cross-Calibration Method of FY-3C/VIRR against NPP/VIIRS in the

Dunhuang Test Site

29) Improved VIIRS and MODIS SST Imagery

30) Comparison between the Suomi-NPP Day-Night Band and DMSP-OLS for Correlating

Socio-Economic Variables at the Provincial Level in China