Calibration of the Thermal Infrared Sensor on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission

Author

Thome, K. ; Reuter, D. ; Lunsford, A. ; Montanaro, M. ; Smith, R. ; Tesfaye, Z. ; Wenny, B.

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

985

Lastpage

988

Abstract

The Landsat series of satellites provides the longest running continuous data set of moderate-spatial-resolution imagery beginning with the launch of Landsat 1 in 1972 and continuing with the 1999 launch of Landsat 7 and current operation of Landsats 5 and 7[1]. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) will continue this program into a fourth decade providing data that are keys to understanding changes in land-use changes and resource management. LDCM consists of a two-sensor platform comprised of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensors (TIRS). A description of the applications and design of the TIRS instrument is given as well as the plans for calibration and characterization. Included are early results from preflight calibration and a description of the inflight validation.

Keywords

calibration; image resolution; image sensors; infrared detectors; temperature sensors; LDCM; Landsat data continuity mission; OLI; TIRS; moderate-spatial-resolution imagery; operational land imager; resource management; thermal infrared sensor calibration; Calibration; Earth; Instruments; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellites; Testing; LDCM; Radiometric calibration; TIRS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049298

Filename

6049298