SNPP and N20 VIIRS solar vector orientation knowledge error detected by SDSM sun views

Ning Lei; Sherry Li

doi:10.1117/12.2567773

20 August 2020 SNPP and N20 VIIRS solar vector orientation knowledge error detected by SDSM sun views

Ning Lei, Sherry Li

Proceedings Volume 11501, Earth Observing Systems XXV; 1150113 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567773
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is a passive scanning Earth observing satellite radiometer. The VIIRS has 22 spectral bands with design center wavelengths from 0.41 to 12.01 m, providing data to generate more than 20 Earth’s biogeophysical parameters. Fourteen of the 22 VIIRS bands are the reflective solar bands (RSBs), detecting Earth reflected sunlight. To ensure data quality, regular on-orbit radiometric calibrations of the RSBs are performed, mainly through observations of an onboard solar diffuser (SD). The spectral radiance provided by the sunlit SD depends on the SD screen transmittance which is a function of the solar vector orientation. Additionally, on orbit the SD’s bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) changes its value due to solar bombardment. The BRDF change is derived from the SD stability monitor (SDSM) measurements. The SDSM views the Sun through a screen with through holes (the SDSM screen) and the SD at almost the same time. The time series of the ratio of the signal strengths is a measure of the SD BRDF on-orbit change. Hence the measurements of the on-orbit SD BRDF change depends on the SDSM screen relative transmittance which is also solar vector orientation dependent. In this paper for both the SNPP and the NOAA-20 VIIRS instruments we examine the solar vector orientation knowledge error through matching the SDSM screen relative effective transmittances derived from the calibration data collected on the yaw maneuver and the regular orbits.

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Ning Lei and Sherry Li "SNPP and N20 VIIRS solar vector orientation knowledge error detected by SDSM sun views", Proc. SPIE 11501, Earth Observing Systems XXV, 1150113 (20 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567773

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