The performance of DC restoration function for MODIS thermal emissive bands

Zhipeng Wang; Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong; Ashish Shrestha

doi:10.1117/12.2274186

5 September 2017 The performance of DC restoration function for MODIS thermal emissive bands

Zhipeng Wang, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, Ashish Shrestha

Proceedings Volume 10402, Earth Observing Systems XXII; 104020P (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274186
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The DC restore (DCR) process of MODIS instrument maintains the output of a detector at focal plane assembly (FPA) within the dynamic range of subsequent analog-to-digital converter, by adding a specific offset voltage to the output. The DCR offset value is adjusted per scan, based on the comparison of the detector response in digital number (DN) collected from the blackbody (BB) view with target DN saved as an on-board look-up table. In this work, the MODIS DCR mechanism is revisited, with the trends of DCR offset being provided for thermal emissive bands (TEB). Noticeable changes have been occasionally found which coincide with significant detector gain change due to various instrumental events such as safe-mode anomaly or FPA temperature fluctuation. In general, MODIS DCR functionality has been effective and the change of DCR offset has no impact to the quality of MODIS data. One exception is the Earth view (EV) data saturation of Aqua MODIS LWIR bands 33, 35 ad 36 during BB warm-up cool-down (WUCD) cycle which has been observed since 2008. The BB view of their detectors saturate when the BB temperature is above certain threshold so the DCR cannot work as designed. Therefore, the dark signal DN fluctuates with the cold FPA (CFPA) temperature and saturate for a few hours per WUCD cycle, which also saturate the EV data sector within the scan. The CFPA temperature fluctuation peaked in 2012 and has been reduced in recent years and the saturation phenomenon has been easing accordingly. This study demonstrates the importance of DCR to data generation.

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Zhipeng Wang, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, and Ashish Shrestha "The performance of DC restoration function for MODIS thermal emissive bands", Proc. SPIE 10402, Earth Observing Systems XXII, 104020P (5 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274186

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