SPOT4 HRVIR first in-flight image quality results

Philippe Kubik; Eric Breton; Aime Meygret; Bernard Cabrieres; Philippe Hazane; Dominique Leger

doi:10.1117/12.333652

21 December 1998 SPOT4 HRVIR first in-flight image quality results

Philippe Kubik, Eric Breton, Aime Meygret, Bernard Cabrieres, Philippe Hazane, Dominique Leger

Proceedings Volume 3498, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites II; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.333652
Event: Remote Sensing, 1998, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

The SPOT4 remote sensing satellite was successfully launched at the end of March 1998. It was designed first of all to guarantee continuity of SPOT services beyond the year 2000 but also to improve the mission. Its two cameras are now called HRVIR since a short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectral band has been added. Like their predecessor HRV cameras, they provide 20-meter multispectral and 10-meter monospectral images with a 60 km swath for nadir viewing. SPOT4's first two months of life in orbit were dedicated to the evaluation of its image quality performances. During this period of time, the CNES team used specific target programming in order to compute image correction parameters and estimate the performance, at system level, of the image processing chain. After a description of SPOT4 system requirements and new features of the HRVIR cameras, this paper focuses on the performance deduced from in-flight measurements, methods used and their accuracy: MTF measurements, refocusing, absolute calibration, signal-to-noise Ratio, location, focal plane cartography, dynamic disturbances.

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Philippe Kubik, Eric Breton, Aime Meygret, Bernard Cabrieres, Philippe Hazane, and Dominique Leger "SPOT4 HRVIR first in-flight image quality results", Proc. SPIE 3498, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites II, (21 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.333652

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