Detector based calibration of a portable imaging spectrometer for CLARREO Pathfinder Mission

Yigit Aytac; Kurt Thome; Brian N. Wenny; Amit Angal; Timothy M. Shuman; Brendan McAndrew

doi:10.1117/12.2528760

9 September 2019 Detector based calibration of a portable imaging spectrometer for CLARREO Pathfinder Mission

Yigit Aytac, Kurt Thome, Brian N. Wenny, Amit Angal, Timothy M. Shuman, Brendan McAndrew

Proceedings Volume 11127, Earth Observing Systems XXIV; 111270A (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528760
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Climate Absolute Refractivity and Reflectance Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder (CPF) mission is being developed to demonstrate SI-traceable retrievals of reflectance at unprecedented accuracies for global satellite observations. An Independent Calibration of the CPF sensor using the Goddard Laser for Absolute Measurement of Radiance (GLAMR) is planned to allow validation of CPF accuracies. GLAMR is a detector-based calibration system relies on a set of NIST-calibrated transfer radiometers to assess the spectral radiance from the GLAMR sphere source to better than 0.3 % (k=2). The current work describes the calibration of the Solar, Lunar Absolute Reflectance Imaging Spectroradiometer (SOLARIS) that was originally developed as a calibration demonstration system for the CLARREO mission and is now being used to assess the independent calibration being developed for CPF. The methodology for the radiometric calibration of SOLARIS is presented as well as results from the GLAMR-based calibration of SOLARIS. The portability of SOLARIS makes it capable of collecting field measurements of earth scenes and direct solar and lunar irradiance similar to those expected during the on-orbit operation of the CPF sensor. Results of SOLARIS field measurements are presented. The use of SOLARIS in this effort also allows the testing protocols for GLAMR to be improved and the field measurements by SOLARIS build confidence in the error budget for GLAMR calibrations. Results are compared to accepted solar irradiance models to demonstrate accuracy values giving confidence in the error budget for the CLARREO reflectance retrieval.

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Yigit Aytac, Kurt Thome, Brian N. Wenny, Amit Angal, Timothy M. Shuman, and Brendan McAndrew "Detector based calibration of a portable imaging spectrometer for CLARREO Pathfinder Mission", Proc. SPIE 11127, Earth Observing Systems XXIV, 111270A (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528760

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