Lunar calibration improvements for the short-wave infrared bands in Aqua and Terra MODIS

Truman Wilson; Amit Angal; Ashish Shrestha; Xiaoxiong Xiong

doi:10.1117/12.2277950

29 September 2017 Lunar calibration improvements for the short-wave infrared bands in Aqua and Terra MODIS

Truman Wilson, Amit Angal, Ashish Shrestha, Xiaoxiong Xiong

Proceedings Volume 10423, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXI; 1042313 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2277950
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is one of the key sensors among a suite of remote sensing instruments on board the Terra and Aqua spacecrafts. Since the beginning of each mission, regularly scheduled lunar observations have been used in order to track the on-orbit gain changes of the reflective solar bands. However, for the short-wave infrared bands, 5-7 and 26, the measured signal is contaminated by both electronic crosstalk and an out-of-band response due to transmission through the MODIS filters at undesired wavelengths. These contaminating signals cause significant oscillations in the derived gain from lunar observations for these bands, which limits their use in determining the scan mirror response versus scan angle at these wavelengths. In this paper, we show a strategy for correcting the electronic crosstalk contamination using lunar observations, where the magnitude and the source of the contaminating signal is clear. For Aqua MODIS, we find that the magnitude of the electronic crosstalk contamination is small, and the lunar calibration remains relatively unaffected. For Terra MODIS, the contamination is more significant, and the electronic crosstalk correction shows a significant reduction in the oscillations of the lunar calibration results.

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Truman Wilson, Amit Angal, Ashish Shrestha, and Xiaoxiong Xiong "Lunar calibration improvements for the short-wave infrared bands in Aqua and Terra MODIS", Proc. SPIE 10423, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXI, 1042313 (29 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2277950

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