Proceedings Article | 8 October 2011
Proc. SPIE. 8175, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2011
KEYWORDS: CMOS sensors, Solar energy, Sun, Imaging systems, Sensors, Satellites, Satellite imaging, Meteorological satellites, Satellite communications, Signal detection
Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI), a payload of the Communication, Ocean and Meteorology Satellite
(COMS), is the world's first ocean color observation satellite in geostationary orbit. It was launched at Kourou Space
Center in French Guiana in June 2010. The detector array in GOCI is custom CMOS Image sensor about 2 Mega-pixels,
featuring rectangular pixel size to compensate for the Earth oblique projection.
This satellite is being operated on geostationary orbit about 36,500km far from the earth; hence it can be more influenced
by sun activities than the other on low Earth orbit. Especially, the detector is sensitive of heat and it may give rise to
increasing the defective pixels. In this paper, radiometric performance variations have been analyzed through the time
series analysis, using the offset parameters and detector temperature estimated in GOCI radiometric model. It is essential
to monitor the overall sensitivity of GOCI sensor, and it will helpful to the radiometric calibration.
In the result, we notified there was no great variation in time series of offset parameters after operating the GOCI in July
2010, but we monitored an anomaly by an operational event. One of them related to thermal electron showed slightly
increasing trend and the diurnal variation by the sun energy. Although sun interferences are occurred sometimes, any
significant anomaly isn't found. With these results of characterization, we find that GOCI has been carrying out stably in
the aspect of radiometric performance, and expect that it will be kept during the mission life.
