Determination of the SNPP VIIRS SDSM screen transmittance from both yaw and non-yaw maneuver data

Ning Lei; Xuexia Chen; Xiaoxiong Xiong

doi:10.1117/12.2062303

26 September 2014 Determination of the SNPP VIIRS SDSM screen transmittance from both yaw maneuver and regular on-orbit data

Ning Lei, Xuexia Chen, Xiaoxiong Xiong

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Proceedings Volume 9218, Earth Observing Systems XIX; 921803 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062303
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite carries out radiometric calibration of its reflective solar bands primarily through observing a sunlit onboard solar diffuser (SD). The SD bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) degrades over time. The degradation factor is determined by an onboard solar diffuser stability monitor (SDSM) which observes the Sun through a pinhole screen and the sunlit SD. The transmittance of the SDSM pinhole screen over a range of solar angles was determined prelaunch and used initially to determine the BRDF degradation factor. The degradation factor versus time curves were found to have a number of very large unphysical undulations likely due to the inaccuracies in the prelaunch determined SDSM screen transmittance. To validate and if necessary to refine both the SD and the SDSM screen transmittances, satellite yaw maneuvers were carried out. With the yaw maneuver data determined SDSM screen transmittance, the computed BRDF degradation factor curves still have large unphysical ripples, indicating that the projected solar horizontal angular step size in the yaw maneuver data is too large to resolve the transmittance at a fine angular scale. We develop a methodology to use both the yaw maneuver and regular on-orbit data to determine the SDSM screen transmittance at a fine angular scale with a relative error standard deviation from 0.00029 (672 nm; detector 5) to 0.00074 (926 nm; detector 8). With the newly determined SDSM screen transmittance, the computed BRDF degradation factor behaves much more smoothly over time.

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Ning Lei, Xuexia Chen, and Xiaoxiong Xiong "Determination of the SNPP VIIRS SDSM screen transmittance from both yaw maneuver and regular on-orbit data", Proc. SPIE 9218, Earth Observing Systems XIX, 921803 (26 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062303

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