HJ-1A thermal infrared band cross-calibration and validation

HJ-1A satellite has been lunched in September, 2008. It is calibration and validation that the fundamental of quantitative utilization of HJ-1A IRS imagery. HJ-1A has only one channel in thermal infrared band, compared to MODIS sensor, which has two channels accordingly. The key process of cross-calibration is band match, so this paper uses the MODIS SST product retrieval algorithm as reference for the difference of HJ-1A and MODIS thermal infrared channels characters. TIGR database were used as input parameters into radiative transfer mode Modtran4.0 to obtain band match coefficients by regression analysis. Number 711~1064 datum in TIGR database representing mid-latitude winter were chose according to the selected image´s date. Research demonstrates that cross-calibration method is effective to HJ-1A thermal infrared channel 4.