Functional form of the radiometric equation for the SNPP VIIRS reflective solar bands

Ning Lei; Xiaoxiong Xiong

doi:10.1117/12.2236950

19 September 2016 Functional form of the radiometric equation for the SNPP VIIRS reflective solar bands

Ning Lei, Xiaoxiong Xiong

Proceedings Volume 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI; 997219 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236950
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite is a passive scanning radiometer and an imager, observing radiative energy from the Earth in 22 spectral bands from 0.41 to 12 m which include 14 reflective solar bands (RSBs). Extending the formula used by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instruments, currently the VIIRS determines the sensor aperture spectral radiance through a quadratic polynomial of its detector digital count. It has been known that for the RSBs the quadratic polynomial is not adequate in the design specified spectral radiance region and using a quadratic polynomial could drastically increase the errors in the polynomial coefficients, leading to possible large errors in the determined aperture spectral radiance. In addition, it is very desirable to be able to extend the radiance calculation formula to correctly retrieve the aperture spectral radiance with the level beyond the design specified range. In order to more accurately determine the aperture spectral radiance from the observed digital count, we examine a few polynomials of the detector digital count to calculate the sensor aperture spectral radiance.

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Ning Lei and Xiaoxiong Xiong "Functional form of the radiometric equation for the SNPP VIIRS reflective solar bands", Proc. SPIE 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI, 997219 (19 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236950

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