Intercalibration of the reflective solar bands of MODIS and MISR instruments on the Terra platform

Amit Angal; Carol Bruegge; Xiaoxiong Xiong; Aisheng Wu

doi:10.1117/12.2594773

1 August 2021 Intercalibration of the reflective solar bands of MODIS and MISR instruments on the Terra platform

Amit Angal, Carol Bruegge, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Aisheng Wu

Proceedings Volume 11829, Earth Observing Systems XXVI; 118291B (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594773
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

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The multispectral imaging sensors on the Terra platform have been operating for over two decades facilitating a variety of scientific applications. The MODIS sensor provides the largest spectral coverage of 0.41 to 14.2 μm, acquiring data at three different spatial resolutions, 250 m, 500 m, and 1 km. The MISR instrument views the Earth using nine discrete cameras pointed at fixed angles including viewing the nadir direction at a spatial resolution of 275 m and covering a wavelength range from 0.44 to 0.86 μm. Being on the same platform, the two sensors complement each other in terms of spatial coverage (and target viewing geometry) and facilitate synergistic applications using multispectral data. A consistent radiometric calibration between these sensors is a prerequisite for creating high quality science products from their observations. Both instruments underwent intensive prelaunch characterization, with calibration monitored on-orbit using their onboard calibrators. In this paper, we perform a calibration inter-comparison of the spectrally matching bands of the two instruments using vicarious techniques. Vicarious techniques include multiyear simultaneous views of the North African desert, North Atlantic Ocean and Dome Concordia, thereby covering the different parts of the dynamic range. Also included in this work are the near-simultaneous top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance measurements from Railroad Valley, USA, as provided by the RadCalNet (converted to TOA), that are used as a calibration reference to compare the on-orbit observations between MODIS and MISR.

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Amit Angal, Carol Bruegge, Xiaoxiong Xiong, and Aisheng Wu "Intercalibration of the reflective solar bands of MODIS and MISR instruments on the Terra platform", Proc. SPIE 11829, Earth Observing Systems XXVI, 118291B (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594773

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