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McCorkel et al. 2016

McCorkel, J., B. Cairns, and A. Wasilewski, 2016: Imager-to-radiometer inflight cross calibration: RSP radiometric comparison with airborne and satellite sensors. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 955-962, doi:10.5194/amt-9-955-2016.

This work develops a method to compare the radiometric calibration between a radiometer and imagers hosted on aircraft and satellites. The radiometer is the airborne Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) that takes multi-angle, photo-polarimetric measurements in several spectral channels. The RSP measurements used in this work were coincident with measurements made by the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), which was on the same aircraft. These airborne measurements were also coincident with an overpass of the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI). First we compare the RSP and OLI radiance measurements to AVIRIS since the spectral response of the multispectral instruments can be used to synthesize a spectrally equivalent signal from the imaging spectrometer data. We then explore a method that uses AVIRIS as a transfer between RSP and OLI to show that radiometric traceability of a satellite-based imager can be used to calibrate a radiometer despite differences in spectral channel sensitivities. This calibration transfer shows agreement within the uncertainty of both the various instruments for most spectral channels.

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BibTeX Citation

@article{mc00100k,
  author={McCorkel, J. and Cairns, B. and Wasilewski, A.},
  title={Imager-to-radiometer inflight cross calibration: RSP radiometric comparison with airborne and satellite sensors},
  year={2016},
  journal={Atmospheric Measurement Techniques},
  volume={9},
  pages={955--962},
  doi={10.5194/amt-9-955-2016},
}

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TY  - JOUR
ID  - mc00100k
AU  - McCorkel, J.
AU  - Cairns, B.
AU  - Wasilewski, A.
PY  - 2016
TI  - Imager-to-radiometer inflight cross calibration: RSP radiometric comparison with airborne and satellite sensors
JA  - Atmos. Meas. Tech.
JO  - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
VL  - 9
SP  - 955
EP  - 962
DO  - 10.5194/amt-9-955-2016
ER  -

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