A design of an on-orbit radiometric calibration device for high dynamic range infrared remote sensors

Sheng, Yicheng; Jin, Weiqi; Xiong, Deping; Zhou, Feng; Xiao, Si

doi:10.1117/12.2285702

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“…The radiation of each radiating element passes through the calibration optical path to form a substantially uniform illumination on the IRFPA surface. However, approximately 1.5% of the NU remains [26]. The internal calibration source meets requirements associated with temperature stability, repeatability, high precision, HDR, radiance distribution uniformity and other performance indicators and has a short heating and cooling time, small size, low weight, low power consumption and many other advantages.…”

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The On-Orbit Non-Uniformity Correction Method with Modulated Internal Calibration Sources for Infrared Remote Sensing Systems

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Abstract:The scanning infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) suffers from stripe-like non-uniformity due to the usage of many detectors, especially when working with a large time scale. Typical calibration systems tend to block the sensor aperture and expose the detectors to an on-board blackbody calibration source. They may also point at deep space. Full aperture calibration sources of this type tend to be large and expensive. To address these problems, a dynamic non-uniformity correction (NUC) method is proposed based on a modulated internal calibration device. By employing the on-board calibration device to generate a dynamic scene and fully integrating the system characteristics of the scanning IRFPA into the scene-based non-uniformity correction (SBNUC) algorithm, on-orbit high dynamic range NUC is achieved without blocking the field of view. Here we simulate an internal calibration system alternative, where a dynamic calibration signal is superimposed on the normal imagery, thus requiring no mechanisms and a smaller size. This method using this type of calibrator shows that when the sensor is pointing at deep space for calibration, it provides an effective non-uniformity correction of the imagery. After performing the proposed method, the NU of the two evaluation images was reduced from the initial 12.99% and 8.72% to less than 2%. Compared to other on-board NUC methods that require an extended reference blackbody source, this proposed approach has the advantages of miniaturization, a short calibration time, and strong adaptability.

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The On-Orbit Non-Uniformity Correction Method with Modulated Internal Calibration Sources for Infrared Remote Sensing Systems

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A design of an on-orbit radiometric calibration device for high dynamic range infrared remote sensors

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The On-Orbit Non-Uniformity Correction Method with Modulated Internal Calibration Sources for Infrared Remote Sensing Systems

The On-Orbit Non-Uniformity Correction Method with Modulated Internal Calibration Sources for Infrared Remote Sensing Systems

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