Dr. Frank D. Palluconi Profile

Dr. Frank D. Palluconi

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Proceedings Article | 30 October 2006 Paper

Landsat TM and ETM+ thermal band calibration

Julia Barsi, Simon Hook, Frank Palluconi, John Schott, Nina Raqueno

Proceedings Volume 6296, 62960F (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.683212

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Earth observing sensors, Landsat, Sensors, Stanford Linear Collider, Data acquisition, Black bodies, Databases, Camera shutters, Satellites

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Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) has been imaging the Earth since March 1984 and Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) was added to the series of Landsat instruments in April 1999. The stability and calibration of the ETM+ has been monitored extensively since launch. Though not monitored for many years, TM now has a similar system in place to monitor stability and calibration. University teams have been evaluating the on-board calibration of the instruments through ground-based measurements since 1999. This paper considers the calibration efforts for the thermal band, Band 6, of both the Landsat-5 and Landsat-7 instruments. Initial calibration results for the Landsat-7 ETM+ thermal band found a bias error which was corrected through changes in the processing systems in late 2000. Recent results are suggesting a calibration error in gain, apparent with high temperature targets. For typical earth temperature targets, from about 5-20C, the gain error is small enough to be within the noise of the vicarious calibration process. However, for very high temperature targets (greater then 35C), Landsat-7 appears to be predicting several degrees too low. Questions remain on whether the change happened suddenly or is varying slowly, so the team will wait for another collection season before making any updates to the calibration. The calibration efforts for Landsat-5 TM considers only data collected since 1999, though there are efforts underway to extend the calibration history prior to the Landsat-7 launch. The latest data suggests that the Landsat-5 thermal band has a bias error of about 0.65K too low since 1999. Studies early in the life of Landsat-5 show that the instrument was calibrated within the error of the calibration process. It is impossible to tell, at this point, when or how the change in bias may have occurred. A correction will be calculated and implemented in the US processing system in 2006 for data acquired since April 1999.

Proceedings Article | 23 August 2005 Paper

Validation of Landsat 7 ETM+ band 6 radiometric performance

Frank Palluconi, Simon Hook, Ali Abtahi, Ron Alley

Proceedings Volume 5882, 58820C (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.620013

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Temperature metrology, Sensors, Image sensors, Landsat, Radiometry, Atmospheric sensing, Black bodies, Camera shutters, Earth observing sensors

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Proceedings Article | 22 August 2005 Paper

Validation of a web-based atmospheric correction tool for single thermal band instruments

Julia Barsi, John Schott, Frank Palluconi, Simon Hook

Proceedings Volume 5882, 58820E (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.619990

KEYWORDS: Earth observing sensors, Atmospheric corrections, Atmospheric modeling, Calibration, Landsat, Temperature metrology, Satellites, Radiative transfer, Sensors, Thermography

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Proceedings Article | 8 April 2003 Paper

Landsat-7 ETM+ radiometric stability and absolute calibration

Brian Markham, John Barker, Julia Barsi, Ed Kaita, Kurtis Thome, Dennis Helder, Frank Palluconi, John Schott, Pat Scaramuzza

Proceedings Volume 4881, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462998

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Reflectivity, Lamps, Earth observing sensors, Sensors, Landsat, Diffusers, Sun, Camera shutters, Imaging systems

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Proceedings Article | 8 February 2002 Paper

Verification of the ASTER/TIR atmospheric correction algorithm based on water surface emissivity retrieved

Hideyuki Tonooka, Frank Palluconi

Proceedings Volume 4486, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455143

KEYWORDS: Atmospheric corrections, Radiative transfer, Atmospheric modeling, Infrared radiation, Thermography, Radiometry, Earth's atmosphere, Reflection, Error analysis, Temperature metrology

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Proceedings Article | 12 December 2001 Paper

EOS ASTER thermal infrared band vicarious calibration

Frank Palluconi, Hideyuki Tonooka, Simon Hook, Ali Abtahi, Ronald Alley, Tim Thompson, Gordon Hoover, Serj Zadourian

Proceedings Volume 4540, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.450667

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Temperature metrology, Calibration, Radiometry, Image sensors, Thermography, Infrared radiation, Black bodies, Atmospheric sensing, Image acquisition

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Proceedings Article | 11 November 1996 Paper

Validation of the ASTER thermal infrared surface radiance data product

Frank Palluconi

Proceedings Volume 2820, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258092

KEYWORDS: Atmospheric corrections, Atmospheric modeling, Temperature metrology, Ozone, Thermography, MODIS, Infrared radiation, Aerosols, Radiometry, Atmospheric particles

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