Abstract
Satellite sensors with large view angles can provide wide-swath imaging for earth observations, which pose new challenges for cross-calibration due to bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). To address these challenges, we adopted global searching (GS) algorithms to “search” calibration coefficients with BRDF considered. The GS-based methods were implemented to calibrate two Chinese large-view-angle sensors: the Gaofen-1 first wide-field-of-view (WFV1) camera and Gaofen-4 panchromatic multispectral sensor (PMS) with Landsat-8/Operational Land Imager (OLI) as references. Validations were conducted by evaluating the top of atmosphere (TOA) radiance and surface reflectance using synchronous OLI data. The mean relative biases (MRBs) of the GS-derived TOA radiance for the WFV1 were smaller than 5.5% compared with the OLI-simulated TOA radiance, while those of using official coefficients were up to 13%. The performances of the GS method and traditional method using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) BRDF products for BRDF correction are comparable. The GS-based scheme has the potential to correct BRDF during cross-calibration and thus free cross-calibration of large-view-angle sensors from BRDF models and products.
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