Estimation of Systematic Errors of MODIS Thermal Infrared Bands

Author

Liu, Ronggao G. ; Liu, Jiyuan Y. ; Liang, Shunlin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Geogr. Sci. & Natural Resources Res., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

Volume

3

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

541

Lastpage

545

Abstract

This letter reports a statistical method to estimate detector-dependent systematic error in Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) thermal infrared (TIR) Bands 20-25 and 27-36. There exist scan-to-scan overlapped pixels in MODIS data. By analyzing a sufficiently large amount of those most overlapped pixels, the systematic error of each detector in the TIR bands can be estimated. The results show that the Aqua MODIS data are generally better than the Terra MODIS data in 160 MODIS TIR detectors. There are no detector-dependent systematic errors in Bands 31 and 32 for both Terra and Aqua MODIS data. The maximum detector errors are 3.00 K in Band 21 of Terra and -8.15 K in that of Aqua for brightness temperatures of more than 250 K

Keywords

geophysical techniques; infrared imaging; land surface temperature; measurement errors; radiometry; statistical analysis; -8.15 K; 3.00 K; MODIS TIR detectors; MODIS thermal infrared bands; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; brightness temperatures; detector-dependent systematic error; land surface temperature; scan-to-scan overlapped pixels; systematic error estimation; Estimation error; Infrared detectors; Infrared imaging; Infrared spectra; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Ocean temperature; Sea surface; Statistical analysis; Temperature sensors; Land surface temperature (LST); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); systematic errors; thermal infrared (TIR);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1545-598X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LGRS.2006.879104

Filename

1715313