Landsat-7 ETM+ radiometric calibration status

Julia A. Barsi; Brian L. Markham; Jeffrey S. Czapla-Myers; Dennis L. Helder; Simon J. Hook; John R. Schott; Md. Obaidul Haque

doi:10.1117/12.2238625

19 September 2016 Landsat-7 ETM+ radiometric calibration status

Julia A. Barsi, Brian L. Markham, Jeffrey S. Czapla-Myers, Dennis L. Helder, Simon J. Hook, John R. Schott, Md. Obaidul Haque

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Proceedings Volume 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI; 99720C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238625
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Now in its 17th year of operation, the Enhanced Thematic Mapper + (ETM+), on board the Landsat-7 satellite, continues to systematically acquire imagery of the Earth to add to the 40+ year archive of Landsat data. Characterization of the ETM+ on-orbit radiometric performance has been on-going since its launch in 1999. The radiometric calibration of the reflective bands is still monitored using on-board calibration devices, though the Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites (PICS) method has proven to be an effective tool as well. The calibration gains were updated in April 2013 based primarily on PICS results, which corrected for a change of as much as -0.2%/year degradation in the worst case bands. A new comparison with the SADE database of PICS results indicates no additional degradation in the updated calibration. PICS data are still being tracked though the recent trends are not well understood. The thermal band calibration was updated last in October 2013 based on a continued calibration effort by NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab and Rochester Institute of Technology. The update accounted for a 0.036 W/m² sr μm or 0.26K at 300K bias error. The updated lifetime trend is now stable to within +/- 0.4K.

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Julia A. Barsi, Brian L. Markham, Jeffrey S. Czapla-Myers, Dennis L. Helder, Simon J. Hook, John R. Schott, and Md. Obaidul Haque "Landsat-7 ETM+ radiometric calibration status", Proc. SPIE 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI, 99720C (19 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238625

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