Radiometric calibration of the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager

Jeffrey A. Mendenhall; Donald E. Lencioni; Alexander C. Parker

doi:10.1117/12.363505

24 September 1999 Radiometric calibration of the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager

Jeffrey A. Mendenhall, Donald E. Lencioni, Alexander C. Parker

Proceedings Volume 3750, Earth Observing Systems IV; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.363505
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The radiometric calibration of the Earth Observation 1 Advanced Land Imager (EO-1 ALI) was completed in the Spring of 1999 at Lincoln Laboratory. This calibration was conducted with the ALI as a fully assembled instrument in a thermal vacuum chamber at operation temperatures. The ALI was calibrated radiometrically at the system level from 0 to > 100 percent Earth-equivalent albedo using a combination of internal and external halogen and Xenon lamps attached to a large integrating sphere. Absolute radiometric calibration was achieved by measuring the output of the integrating sphere at each radiance level prior to ALI illumination using a NIST-traceable spectroradiometer. Additional radiometric characterization of this instrument was obtained from data collected using a collimator designed for the spectral calibration of the ALI. In this paper we review the techniques employed during radiometric calibration and present the measured gain, linearity, offset, signal-to- noise ratio and polarization sensitivity of each pixel. The testing result of a novel, in-flight solar calibration technique are also discussed. Finally, the results from a Lincoln Laboratory/Goddard Space Flight Center Landsat transfer radiometric study are presented.

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Jeffrey A. Mendenhall, Donald E. Lencioni, and Alexander C. Parker "Radiometric calibration of the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager", Proc. SPIE 3750, Earth Observing Systems IV, (24 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.363505

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