The Ground-Based Absolute Radiometric Calibration of Landsat 8 OLI

Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey S.; McCorkel, Joel; Anderson, Nikolaus; Thome, Kurtis J.; Biggar, Stuart F.; Helder, Dennis L.; Aaron, David; Leigh, Larry; Mishra, Nischal

doi:10.3390/rs70100600

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“…It is important to study continuity among sensors from the same series of satellites by considering of the important parameters including sensor characteristics, over-pass time, scanning system, angular affect and etc. A few studies related to the continuity of Landsat 8 have been conducted, including preflight and post-launch calibrations [28][29][30][31][32][33]. Most of these studies have shown that the continuity between the Landsat-8 OLI and Landsat-7 ETM+ is good.…”

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Comparison of the Continuity of Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat 8 OLI and Landsat 7 ETM+ Data among Different Vegetation Types

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Zhang

et al. 2015

Remote Sensing

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Landsat 8, the most recently launched satellite of the series, promises to maintain the continuity of Landsat 7. However, in addition to subtle differences in sensor characteristics and vegetation index (VI) generation algorithms, VIs respond differently to the seasonality of the various types of vegetation cover. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the effects of these variations on VIs between Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). Ground spectral data for vegetation were used to simulate the Landsat at-senor broadband reflectance, with consideration of sensor band-pass differences. Three band-geometric VIs (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)) and two band-transformation VIs (Vegetation Index based on the Universal Pattern Decomposition method (VIUPD), Tasseled Cap Transformation Greenness (TCG)) were tested to evaluate the performance of various VI generation algorithms in relation to multi-sensor continuity. Six vegetation types were included to evaluate the continuity in different vegetation types. Four pairs of data during four seasons were selected to evaluate continuity with respect to seasonal variation. The simulated data showed that OLI largely inherits the band-pass characteristics of ETM+. Overall, the continuity of band-transformation derived VIs was higher than OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2015, 7 13486 band-geometry derived VIs. VI continuity was higher in the three forest types and the shrubs in the relatively rapid growth periods of summer and autumn, but lower for the other two non-forest types (grassland and crops) during the same periods.

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confidence: 99%

Comparison of the Continuity of Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat 8 OLI and Landsat 7 ETM+ Data among Different Vegetation Types

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Zhang

et al. 2015

Remote Sensing

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“…3% in the middle of the visible portion of the spectrum [21]. In this work, as can been seen in Table 6, the uncertainty in the TOA Radiance predicted by MODTRAN ranged from 3.1% to 4.4% in the four MUX and WFI spectral bands.…”

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“…For ETM+/Landsat-7, TM/Landsat 4 and 5, for example, the sites were a rectangular area that is 480 by 120 m [10]. The size of one site used to calibrate the OLI/Landsat-8 was 100 by 250 m [21]. Here, a 160 by 300 m surface was selected, which is appropriate size to calibrate sensors on-board CBERS-4 (or better ground spatial resolution).…”

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First in-Flight Radiometric Calibration of MUX and WFI on-Board CBERS-4

et al. 2016

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Brazil and China have a long-term joint space based sensor program called China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS). The most recent satellite of this program (CBERS-4) was successfully launched on 7 December 2014. This work describes a complete procedure, along with the associated uncertainties, used to calculate the in-flight absolute calibration coefficients for the sensors Multispectral Camera (MUX) and Wide-Field Imager (WFI) on-board CBERS-4. Two absolute radiometric calibration techniques were applied: (i) reflectance-based approach and (ii) cross-calibration method. A specific site at Algodones Dunes region located in the southwestern portion of the United States of America was used as a reference surface. Radiometric ground and atmospheric measurements were carried out on 9 March 2015, when CBERS-4 passed over the region. In addition, a cross-calibration between both MUX and WFI on-board CBERS-4 and the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on-board Landsat-8 was performed using the Libya-4 Pseudo Invariant Calibration Site. The gain coefficients are now available: 1.68, 1.62, 1.59 and 1.42 for MUX and 0.379, 0.498, 0.360 and 0.351 for WFI spectral bands blue, green, red and NIR, respectively, in units of (W/(m 2¨s r¨µm))/DN. These coefficients were determined with uncertainties lower than 3.5%. As a validation of these radiometric coefficients, cross-calibration was also undertaken. An evaluation of radiometric consistency was performed between the two instruments (MUX and WFI) on-board CBERS-4 and with the well calibrated Landsat-7 ETM+. Results show that the reflectance values match in all the analogous spectral bands within the specified calibration uncertainties.

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“…Therefore, in-orbit vicarious calibration must be used to transform the satellite data into meaningful physical information. Previous studies used reflectance-, irradiance-, and radiance-based techniques [2,3] to successfully calibrate satellites such as the SPOT HRV [4], Landsat TM/ETM [3,5,6], Airborne Visible and Infrared Spectrometer [7], EO-1 Hyperion [8,9], and FY [10,11], MISR [12], Landsat OLI [13], CBERS-4 [14], and many other optical remote sensors [15]. The reflectance-and irradiance-based methods have been compared with cross-calibration methods to derive the calibration coefficients for the BJ-1 microsatellite [16].…”

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Vicarious Radiometric Calibration of the Hyperspectral Imaging Microsatellites SPARK-01 and -02 over Dunhuang, China

Zhang

Chen

et al. 2018

Remote Sensing

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Two wide-swath hyperspectral imaging microsatellites, SPARK-01 and -02, were launched on 22 December 2016. Radiometric calibration coefficients were determined for these two satellites via a calibration experiment performed from the end of February to the beginning of March 2017 at the high-altitude, homogenous Dunhuang calibration site in the Gobi Desert in China. In-situ measurements, including ground reflectance, direct transmittance, diffuse-to-global irradiance ratio, and radiosonde vertical profile, were acquired. A unique relative calibration procedure was developed using actual satellite images. This procedure included dark current computation and non-uniform correction processes. The former was computed by averaging multiple lines of long strip imagery acquired over open oceans during nighttime, while the latter was computed using images acquired after the adjustment of the satellite yaw angle to 90 • . This technique was shown to be suitable for large-swath satellite image relative calibration. After relative calibration, reflectance, irradiance, and improved irradiance-based methods were used to conduct absolute radiometric calibrations in order to predict the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiance. The SPARK-01 and -02 satellites passed over the calibration site on 7 March and 28 February 2017, during which time fair and non-ideal weather occurred, respectively. Thus, the SPARK-01 calibration coefficient was derived using reflectance-and irradiance-based methods, while that of SPARK -02 was derived using reflectanceand improved irradiance-based methods. The sources of calibration uncertainty, which include aerosol-type assumptions, transmittance measurements, water vapor content retrieval, spectral wavelength shift and satellite image misregistration, were explored in detail for different calibration methods. Using the reflectance and irradiance-based methods, the total uncertainty for SPARK-01 was estimated to be 4.7% and 4.1%, respectively, in the <1000 nm spectral range. For SPARK-02, total uncertainties of 8.1% and of 5.9% were estimated using the reflectance-and improved irradiance-based methods, respectively. The calibration methods were also verified using MODIS images, which confirmed that the calibration accuracies were within the expected range. These in-situ measurements, analyses, and results provide a basis for in-orbit radiometric calibration of the SPARK-01 and -02 satellites. These experiments strongly support the use of diffuse-to-global ratio measurements in in-situ vicarious calibration experiments and the addition of spectrally continuous measurements for direct transmittance, which is important for hyperspectral satellite sensors.

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The Ground-Based Absolute Radiometric Calibration of Landsat 8 OLI

Cited by 147 publications

References 42 publications

Comparison of the Continuity of Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat 8 OLI and Landsat 7 ETM+ Data among Different Vegetation Types

Comparison of the Continuity of Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat 8 OLI and Landsat 7 ETM+ Data among Different Vegetation Types

First in-Flight Radiometric Calibration of MUX and WFI on-Board CBERS-4

Vicarious Radiometric Calibration of the Hyperspectral Imaging Microsatellites SPARK-01 and -02 over Dunhuang, China

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