We employ the in-site automated observation radiometric calibration（AORC） approach to perform vicarious calibration, which does not require the manual efforts of a field team to measure the surface conditions. By us...We employ the in-site automated observation radiometric calibration（AORC） approach to perform vicarious calibration, which does not require the manual efforts of a field team to measure the surface conditions. By using an automated test-site radiometer（ATR）, the surface radiance at any moment in time can be obtained. This Letter describes the AORC approach and makes use of data to compute top-of-atmosphere radiance and compare it to measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. The result shows that the relative deviation is less than 5% and the uncertainty is less than 6.2%, which indicates that the in-site AORC maintains an accuracy level on par with traditional calibration.展开更多
基金supported by the National “863” Program of China(No.2015AA123702)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11204318 and61275173)
文摘We employ the in-site automated observation radiometric calibration（AORC） approach to perform vicarious calibration, which does not require the manual efforts of a field team to measure the surface conditions. By using an automated test-site radiometer（ATR）, the surface radiance at any moment in time can be obtained. This Letter describes the AORC approach and makes use of data to compute top-of-atmosphere radiance and compare it to measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. The result shows that the relative deviation is less than 5% and the uncertainty is less than 6.2%, which indicates that the in-site AORC maintains an accuracy level on par with traditional calibration.
