Earth reflectance image striping mitigation for NOAA-20 VIIRS visible and near-infrared bands

Ning Lei; Sherry Li; Truman Wilson; Qiaozhen Mu; Kevin Twedt; Xu Geng; Xiaoxiong Xiong

doi:10.1117/12.3027686

3 October 2024 Earth reflectance image striping mitigation for NOAA-20 VIIRS visible and near-infrared bands

Ning Lei, Sherry Li, Truman Wilson, Qiaozhen Mu, Kevin Twedt, Xu Geng, Xiaoxiong Xiong

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Proceedings Volume 13143, Earth Observing Systems XXIX; 1314314 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3027686
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2024, San Diego, California, United States

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The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is an Earth-observing satellite sensor. VIIRS data are used to generate about 30 products (see Ref. 3) for Earth studies and weather forecasting. Out of the 22 VIIRS spectral bands, 14 are the reflective solar bands (RSBs). Earth views from some of these RSBs onboard the NOAA-20 (N20) satellite show unexpected striping. Our investigation shows that the striping for the N20 VIIRS visible and near-infrared (VisNIR) bands comes from three sources: first, for bands M1 (412 nm) and M2 (445 nm), an obvious dependence on the sides of the half-angle-mirror (HAM), a result of a likely error in the HAM’s reflectivity extrapolated to the telescope solar diffuser (SD) view angle; second, a gradual increase in the striping over time for band M1, resulting from not accounting for the positional dependence of the SD reflectance; and finally, a small (~0.3%) but universal amount of time invariant striping for all the VisNIR bands, possibly coming from a small amount of positional dependence in the prelaunch measured SD reflectance. Here, we apply appropriate methods to resolve the unwanted striping for the N20 VIIRS VisNIR bands. The de-striping algorithms have been applied in the NASA N20 VIIRS Collection 2.1 L1B products, with the first delivery of the forward L1B F-factor LUTs (version v3.1.1.7) in November 2023.

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Ning Lei, Sherry Li, Truman Wilson, Qiaozhen Mu, Kevin Twedt, Xu Geng, and Xiaoxiong Xiong "Earth reflectance image striping mitigation for NOAA-20 VIIRS visible and near-infrared bands", Proc. SPIE 13143, Earth Observing Systems XXIX, 1314314 (3 October 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3027686

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