Image navigation and registration performance assessment tool set for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper

Frank J. De Luccia; Scott Houchin; Brian C. Porter; Justin Graybill; Evan Haas; Patrick D. Johnson; Peter J. Isaacson; Alan D. Reth

doi:10.1117/12.2229059

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2 May 2016 Image navigation and registration performance assessment tool set for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper

Frank J. De Luccia, Scott Houchin, Brian C. Porter, Justin Graybill, Evan Haas, Patrick D. Johnson, Peter J. Isaacson, Alan D. Reth

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Proceedings Volume 9881, Earth Observing Missions and Sensors: Development, Implementation, and Characterization IV; 988119 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229059
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2016, New Delhi, India

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The GOES-R Flight Project has developed an Image Navigation and Registration (INR) Performance Assessment Tool Set (IPATS) for measuring Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) INR performance metrics in the post-launch period for performance evaluation and long term monitoring. For ABI, these metrics are the 3-sigma errors in navigation (NAV), channel-to-channel registration (CCR), frame-to-frame registration (FFR), swath-to-swath registration (SSR), and within frame registration (WIFR) for the Level 1B image products. For GLM, the single metric of interest is the 3-sigma error in the navigation of background images (GLM NAV) used by the system to navigate lightning strikes. 3-sigma errors are estimates of the 99. 73^rd percentile of the errors accumulated over a 24 hour data collection period. IPATS utilizes a modular algorithmic design to allow user selection of data processing sequences optimized for generation of each INR metric. This novel modular approach minimizes duplication of common processing elements, thereby maximizing code efficiency and speed. Fast processing is essential given the large number of sub-image registrations required to generate INR metrics for the many images produced over a 24 hour evaluation period. Another aspect of the IPATS design that vastly reduces execution time is the off-line propagation of Landsat based truth images to the fixed grid coordinates system for each of the three GOES-R satellite locations, operational East and West and initial checkout locations. This paper describes the algorithmic design and implementation of IPATS and provides preliminary test results.

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Frank J. De Luccia, Scott Houchin, Brian C. Porter, Justin Graybill, Evan Haas, Patrick D. Johnson, Peter J. Isaacson, and Alan D. Reth "Image navigation and registration performance assessment tool set for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper", Proc. SPIE 9881, Earth Observing Missions and Sensors: Development, Implementation, and Characterization IV, 988119 (2 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229059

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