Results of POLDER in-flight absolute calibration

Olivier Hagolle; Philippe Goloub; Pierre-Yves Deschamps; T. Bailleul; Jean-Marie Nicolas; Yves Fouquart; Aime Meygret; Jean Luc Deuze; Maurice Herman; Frederic Parol; Francois-Marie Breon

doi:10.1117/12.298072

31 December 1997 Results of POLDER in-flight absolute calibration

Olivier Hagolle, Philippe Goloub, Pierre-Yves Deschamps, T. Bailleul, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Yves Fouquart, Aime Meygret, Jean Luc Deuze, Maurice Herman, Frederic Parol, Francois-Marie Breon

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Proceedings Volume 3221, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298072
Event: Aerospace Remote Sensing '97, 1997, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

POLDER is a CNES instrument on-board ADEOS polar orbiting satellite, which was successfully launched in August 1996. In November 1996, POLDER entered its nominal acquisition phase and functioned perfectly until ADEOS early end of service in June 1997. POLDER is a multispectral imaging radiometer/polarimeter designed to collect global and repetitive observations of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth/atmosphere system, with a wide field of view (2400 km) and a moderate geometric resolution (6 km). The instrument concept is based on telecentric optics, on a rotating wheel carrying 15 spectral filters and polarizers, and on a bidimensional CCD detector array. In addition to the classical measurement and mapping characteristics of a narrow-band imaging radiometer, POLDER has a unique ability to measure polarized reflectances using three polarizers (for three of its eight spectral bands, 443 to 910 nm), and to observe target reflectances from 13 different viewing directions during a single satellite pass. One of POLDER original features is that its in-flight radiometrical calibration does not rely on any on-board device. Many calibration methods using well-characterized calibration targets have been developed to achieve a very high calibration accuracy. This paper presents the various methods involved in the absolute in-flight calibration plan and the results obtained during the calibration phase of the instrument: absolute calibration over molecular scattering, inter-band calibration over sunglint and clouds, inter-calibration with OCTS, water vapor channels calibration over sunglint using meteorological analysis. A brief description of the algorithm and of the performances of each method is given.

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Olivier Hagolle, Philippe Goloub, Pierre-Yves Deschamps, T. Bailleul, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Yves Fouquart, Aime Meygret, Jean Luc Deuze, Maurice Herman, Frederic Parol, and Francois-Marie Breon "Results of POLDER in-flight absolute calibration", Proc. SPIE 3221, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites, (31 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298072

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