The improvement of cross-calibration of IIM data and band selection for FeO inversion

Abstract

Chang’E-1 (CE-1) Interference Imaging Spectrometer (IIM) dataset suffers from the weak response in the near infrared (NIR) bands, which are the important wavelength for retrieving the minerals and elements of the Moon. In this paper, the cross-calibration was implemented to the IIM hyperspectral data for improving the weak response in NIR bands. The results show that the cross-calibrated IIM spectra were consistent to the Earth-based telescopic spectra, which suggests that the cross-calibration yields acceptable results. For further validating the influence of the cross-calibration on the FeO inversion and searching the optimal bands to retrieve lunar FeO contents, four band selection schemes were designed to retrieve FeO using the original and cross-calibrated IIM spectra. By comparing the distribution patterns and histograms of the IIM derived FeO contents with the Clementine derived FeO, the IIM 891 nm band after cross-calibration showed a higher accuracy in the FeO inversion, hence most useful for lunar FeO inversion.