SUOMI NPP VIIRS emissive band radiance calibration and analysis

Author

Liu, Quanhua ; Cao, Changyong ; Weng, Fuzhong

Author_Institution

Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Univ. of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

1053

Lastpage

1056

Abstract

VIIRS thermal emissive bands (TEB) have been analyzed. The analysis results indicate the VIIRS TEB is stable and exceeds the specification. Comparisons between the VIIRS and other sensors such as AVHRR, MODIS and CrIS demonstrated that VIIRS TEB agrees well with those sensors. Using Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM), developed at U.S. Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), we found that M12 band image striping at day time over a uniform ocean was caused by the difference of sensor azimuthal angles among detectors.

Keywords

calibration; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; Community Radiative Transfer Model; M12 band image striping; SUOMI NPP VIIRS emissive band radiance analysis; SUOMI NPP VIIRS emissive band radiance calibration; US Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; VIIRS thermal emissive bands; sensor azimuthal angles; uniform ocean; Calibration; Detectors; MODIS; Satellites; Temperature measurement; Calibration; Thermal Emissive Band; VIIRS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351370

Filename

6351370