Reprocessing VIIRS sensor data records from the early SNPP mission

Slawomir Blonski; Changyong Cao

doi:10.1117/12.2241423

19 October 2016 Reprocessing VIIRS sensor data records from the early SNPP mission

Slawomir Blonski, Changyong Cao

Proceedings Volume 10000, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XX; 1000015 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241423
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Visible-Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite began acquiring Earth observations in November 2011. VIIRS data from all spectral bands became available three months after launch when all infrared-band detectors were cooled down to operational temperature. Before that, VIIRS sensor data record (SDR) products were successfully generated for the visible and near infrared (VNIR) bands. Although VIIRS calibration has been significantly improved through the four years of the SNPP mission, SDR reprocessing for this early mission phase has yet to be performed. Despite a rapid decrease in the telescope throughput that occurred during the first few months on orbit, calibration coefficients for the VNIR bands were recently successfully generated using an automated procedure that is currently deployed in the operational SDR production system. The reanalyzed coefficients were derived from measurements collected during solar calibration events that occur on every SNPP orbit since the beginning of the mission. The new coefficients can be further used to reprocess the VIIRS SDR products. In this study, they are applied to reprocess VIIRS data acquired over pseudo-invariant calibration sites Libya 4 and Sudan 1 in Sahara between November 2011 and February 2012. Comparison of the reprocessed SDR products with the original ones demonstrates improvements in the VIIRS calibration provided by the reprocessing. Since SNPP is the first satellite in a series that will form the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), calibration methods developed for the SNPP VIIRS will also apply to the future JPSS measurements.

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Slawomir Blonski and Changyong Cao "Reprocessing VIIRS sensor data records from the early SNPP mission", Proc. SPIE 10000, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XX, 1000015 (19 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241423

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