Paper Info
Title
VIIRS reflective solar bands on-orbit calibration five-year update: extension and improvements.
Abstract
The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) has been on-orbit for almost five years. VIIRS has 22 spectral bands, among which fourteen are reflective solar bands (RSB) covering a spectral range from 0.410 to 2.25 mu m. The SNPP VIIRS RSB have performed very well since launch. The radiometric calibration for the RSB has also reached a mature stage after almost five years since its launch. Numerous improvements have been made in the standard RSB calibration methodology. Additionally, a hybrid calibration method, which takes the advantages of both solar diffuser calibration and lunar calibration and avoids the drawbacks of the two methods, successfully finalizes the highly accurate calibration for VIIRS RSB. The successfully calibrated RSB data record significantly impacts the ocean color products, whose stringent requirements are especially sensitive to calibration accuracy, and helps the ocean color products to reach maturity and high quality. Nevertheless, there are still many challenge issues to be investigated for further improvements of the VIIRS sensor data records (SDR). In this presentation, the robust results of the RSB calibrations and the ocean product performance will be presented. The reprocessed SDR is now in more science tests, in addition to the ocean science tests already completed one year ago, readying to be the mission-long operational SDR
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1117/12.2236997
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
SNPP,VIIRS,RSB,Radiometric Calibration,Solar Diffuser,Solar Diffuser Stability Monitor,Moon
Meteorology,Ocean color,Radiometric calibration,Physical oceanography,Remote sensing,Optics,Orbital mechanics,Spectral bands,Solar diffuser,Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite,Calibration,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9972
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junqiang Sun111037.69
Menghua Wang23322.66