Abstract

The NOAA-20 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) has been in orbit for more than two and a half years. VIIRS has 22 bands, among which 14 are reflective solar bands (RSBs) covering a spectral range from 0.41 to 2.25 µm. The RSBs are calibrated on-orbit using an onboard solar diffuser (SD), on-orbit degradation of which is tracked by an onboard SD stability monitor (SDSM). NOAA-20 VIIRS is also scheduled to view the Moon approximately monthly and the lunar observations are used to track the RSB on-orbit changes as well. Both SD and lunar calibration results for the RSBs are shown and it is demonstrated that the two sets of the calibration coefficients diverge with time, especially at short wavelengths. The divergence is due to the non-uniformity of the SD degradation, which results in a long-term bias in the calibration coefficients derived from the SD calibration. A hybrid method, which properly combines the SD and lunar calibration results, is applied to generate the RSB calibration coefficients as has been done for SNPP VIIRS RSBs. The hybrid results have both the accuracy and frequency and ensure the high quality of the VIIRS sensor data records (SDR).

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