VIIRS DNB time-dependent stray light correction

Chengbo Sun; Thomas Schwarting; Xu Geng; Kwofu Chiang; Hongda Chen; Xiaoxiong Xiong

doi:10.1117/12.2528881

9 September 2019 VIIRS DNB time-dependent stray light correction

Chengbo Sun, Thomas Schwarting, Xu Geng, Kwofu Chiang, Hongda Chen, Xiaoxiong Xiong

Proceedings Volume 11127, Earth Observing Systems XXIV; 111271W (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528881
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The stray light contamination of the VIIRS Day-Night-Band (DNB) on-board the S-NPP satellite has been studied intensively. To alleviate its impact, a stray light correction look-up-table (LUT), which represents the stray light contamination, is derived from the new moon night dataset by subtracting the non stray light signal from the stray light affected signal. The derived LUT can be used to remove the majority of the contamination. However, the LUT remains static until the next update to the Level-1B data processing, usually one month later. Between these two updates, changes in the actual stray light are not captured. We present a method to derive a dynamic stray light correction LUT that covers the time period between updates. By analyzing the patterns in the annual stray light variation, a consistent trend was found in the LUT’s characteristic features which can be quantitatively expressed as time factors. These factors are then applied to the monthly LUT to produce a dynamic stray light LUT for any time of interest. The L1B software can use this algorithm to calculate the LUTs at the time of observation. The results show significant improvement in the DNB product compared to using the monthly static LUT. Furthermore, this time-dependent algorithm provides a basis for deriving a universal stray light correction LUT for VIIRS.

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Chengbo Sun, Thomas Schwarting, Xu Geng, Kwofu Chiang, Hongda Chen, and Xiaoxiong Xiong "VIIRS DNB time-dependent stray light correction", Proc. SPIE 11127, Earth Observing Systems XXIV, 111271W (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528881

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