S-NPP VIIRS thermal emissive band gain correction during the blackbody warm-up-cool-down cycle

Taeyoung J. Choi; Changyong Cao; Fuzhong Weng

doi:10.1117/12.2236995

19 September 2016 S-NPP VIIRS thermal emissive band gain correction during the blackbody warm-up-cool-down cycle

Taeyoung J. Choi, Changyong Cao, Fuzhong Weng

Proceedings Volume 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI; 99721J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236995
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) has onboard calibrators called blackbody (BB) and Space View (SV) for Thermal Emissive Band (TEB) radiometric calibration. In normal operation, the BB temperature is set to 292.5 K providing one radiance level. From the NOAA’s Integrated Calibration and Validation System (ICVS) monitoring system, the TEB calibration factors (F-factors) have been trended and show very stable responses, however the BB Warm-Up-Cool-Down (WUCD) cycles provide detectors’ gain and temperature dependent sensitivity measurements. Since the launch of S-NPP, the NOAA Sea Surface Temperature (SST) group noticed unexpected global SST anomalies during the WUCD cycles. In this study, the TEB Ffactors are calculated during the WUCD cycle on June 17th 2015. The TEB F-factors are analyzed by identifying the VIIRS On-Board Calibrator Intermediate Product (OBCIP) files to be Warm-Up or Cool-Down granules. To correct the SST anomaly, an F-factor correction parameter is calculated by the modified C1 (or b1) values which are derived from the linear portion of C1 coefficient during the WUCD. The F-factor correction factors are applied back to the original VIIRS SST bands showing significantly reducing the F-factor changes. Obvious improvements are observed in M12, M14 and M16, but corrections effects are hardly seen in M16. Further investigation is needed to find out the source of the F-factor oscillations during the WUCD.

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Taeyoung J. Choi, Changyong Cao, and Fuzhong Weng "S-NPP VIIRS thermal emissive band gain correction during the blackbody warm-up-cool-down cycle", Proc. SPIE 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI, 99721J (19 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236995

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