An application of statistical technique to correct satellite data due to orbit degradation

Md. Z. Rahman; Leonid Roytman; Runa Jesmin

doi:10.1117/12.864175

25 October 2010 An application of statistical technique to correct satellite data due to orbit degradation

Md. Z. Rahman, Leonid Roytman, Runa Jesmin

Proceedings Volume 7831, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications; 78310Z (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864175
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2010, Toulouse, France

Abstract

This paper apply an statistical technique to correct radiometric data measured by Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometers(AVHRR) onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites(POES). This paper study Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) stability in the NOAA/NESDIS Global Vegetation Index (GVI) data for the period 1982-2003. AVHRR weekly data for the five NOAA afternoon satellites NOAA-7, NOAA-9, NOAA-11, NOAA-14, and NOAA-16 are used for the China dataset, for it includes a wide variety or different ecosystems represented globally. GVI has found wide use for studying and monitoring land surface, atmosphere, and recently for analyzing climate and environmental changes. Unfortunately the POES AVHRR data, though informative, can not be directly used in climate change studies because of the orbital drift in the NOAA satellites over these satellites' life time. This orbital drift introduces errors in AVHRR data sets for some satellites. To correct this error of satellite data, this paper implements Empirical Distribution Function (EDF) which is a statistical technique to generate error free long-term time-series for GVI data sets. It allows one to represent any global ecosystem from desert to tropical forest and to correct deviations in satellite data due to orbit degradation. The corrected datasets can be used as proxy to study climate change, epidemic analysis, and drought prediction etc.

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Md. Z. Rahman, Leonid Roytman, and Runa Jesmin "An application of statistical technique to correct satellite data due to orbit degradation", Proc. SPIE 7831, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications, 78310Z (25 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864175

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