Part of the Landsat program’s legacy has become a tradition of rigorously calibrated data—i.e., information that accurately reflects physical conditions of the ground. A team of calibration scientists from NASA, USGS, partner vendors, and universities work together to monitor the performance of Landsat’s science instruments. This is accomplished by assiduously tracking the data collected by the satellites’ instruments, specifically, measurements of reflected light from sources that scientists already know well.
Here is a rundown of the paper titles, authors, and abstracts links from the August SPIE meeting in San Diego, CA:
On-orbit performance of the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager
Esad Micijevic ; Kelly Vanderwerff ; Pat Scaramuzza ; Ron A. Morfitt ; Julia A. Barsi ; Raviv Levy
Abstract—via the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Landsat-8 operational land imager on-orbit radiometric calibration and stability
Brian L. Markham ; Julia A. Barsi ; Edward Kaita ; Lawrence Ong ; Md. O. Haque ; Nischal Mishra ; Jeffrey Czapla-Myers ; Nima Pahlevan ; Dennis Helder
Abstract—via the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
The absolute radiometric calibration of the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager using the reflectance-based approach and the Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS)
Jeffrey Czapla-Myers ; Nikolaus Anderson ; Kurtis Thome ; Stuart Biggar
Abstract—via the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) detector-to-detector uniformity challenge and performance
Raviv Levy ; Julia Barsi ; Brian Markham ; Philip Dabney ; Pat L. Scaramuzza ; Esad Micijevic ; Frank Pesta
Abstract—via the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Performance of the Thermal Infrared Sensor on-board Landsat 8 over the first year on-orbit
Matthew Montanaro ; Julia Barsi ; Allen Lunsford ; Scott Rohrbach ; Brian Markham
Abstract—via the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Chasing the TIRS ghosts: calibrating the Landsat 8 thermal bands
John R. Schott ; Aaron Gerace ; Nina Raqueno ; Emmett Ientilucci ; Rolando Raqueno ; Allen W. Lunsford
Abstract—via the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Landsat-8 data processing evolution
Ron A. Morfitt ; Mike J. Choate ; Julia A. Barsi
Abstract—via the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Further information:
+ Landsat Cal/Val Team Receives 2013 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science
+ Landsat 8: Good Things, Getting Better
+ Commissioning the Landsat Data Continuity Mission
