The Ground-Based Absolute Radiometric Calibration of Landsat 8 OLI

Remote Sensing

Jeffrey Czapla-Myers⁴  Joel McCorkel¹  Nikolaus Anderson⁴  Kurtis Thome¹  Stuart Biggar⁴  Dennis Helder³  David Aaron³  Larry Leigh³  Nischal Mishra³  Brian Markham² 

[1] NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; E-Mails:Remote Sensing Group, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA;;Office of Engineering Research, College of Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA; E-Mails:;Remote Sensing Group, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; E-Mails:

关键词: Landsat 8;    OLI;    radiometric calibration;    surface reflectance;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs70100600

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents the vicarious calibration results of Landsat 8 OLI that were obtained using the reflectance-based approach at test sites in Nevada, California, Arizona, and South Dakota, USA. Additional data were obtained using the Radiometric Calibration Test Site, which is a suite of instruments located at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. The results for the top-of-atmosphere spectral radiance show an average difference of −2.7, −0.8, 1.5, 2.0, 0.0, 3.6, 5.8, and 0.7% in OLI bands 1–8 as compared to an average of all of the ground-based measurements. The top-of-atmosphere spectral reflectance shows an average difference of 1.6, 1.3, 2.0, 1.9, 0.9, 2.1, 3.1, and 2.1% from the ground-based measurements. Except for OLI band 7, the spectral radiance results are generally within ±5% of the design specifications, and the reflectance results are generally within ±3% of the design specifications. The results from the data collected during the tandem Landsat 7 and 8 flight in March 2013 indicate that ETM+ and OLI agree to each other to within ±2% in similar bands in top-of-atmosphere spectral radiance, and to within ±4% in top-of-atmosphere spectral reflectance.

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