A Land Product Characterization System for Comparative Analysis of Satellite Data and Products

Abstract

A Land Product Characterization System (LPCS) has been developed to provide land data and products to the community of individuals interested in validating space-based land products by comparing them with similar products available from other sensors or surface-based observations. The LPCS facilitates the application of global multi-satellite and in situ data for characterization and validation of higher-level, satellite-derived, land surface products (e.g., surface reflectance, normalized difference vegetation index, and land surface temperature).

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surface Variables: Progress and Perspective

“…Gallo et al [13] presented the Land Product Characterization System (LPCS), a web-based validation framework developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide ground-based and satellite-derived data products to the community and facilitate validation efforts. LPCS provides functionalities to search, access, and analyze various in situ and satellite data products, and perform co-registration and statistical comparison of products from different data sources through a single interface.…”

“…LPCS includes standard products available from Landsat four to eight, MODIS onboard Terra and Aqua satellites, Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP)/Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), and some of the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel series. To illustrate the capabilities of LPCS, Gallo et al [13] compared surface reflectance products derived from Landsat and MODIS in their paper.…”

Instrument Development: Chinese Radiometric Benchmark of Reflected Solar Band Based on Space Cryogenic Absolute Radiometer

“…The remote sensing data of different satellites are incomparable. Thus, remote sensors cannot satisfy the urgent needs of climate change research due to the low accuracy of in-orbit radiometric calibration [30][31][32].…”