Early On-Orbit Performance of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite

Cao, Changyong; Luccia, Frank J. De; Xiong, Xiaoxiong; Wolfe, Robert E.; Weng, Fuzhong

doi:10.1109/tgrs.2013.2247768

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“…The instrument inherits many features from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua satellites, the advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) on NOAA's Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellites, the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on SeaStar, and the Operational Linescan System (OLS) on the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites [Cao et al, 2013]. The observations from SNPP VIIRS continue the long-term measurements from these heritage instruments in the afternoon orbit.…”

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Suomi NPP VIIRS prelaunch and on‐orbit geometric calibration and characterization

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[1] The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor was launched 28 October 2011 on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite. VIIRS has 22 spectral bands covering the spectrum between 0.412 μm and 12.01 μm, including 16 moderate resolution bands (M-bands) with a nominal spatial resolution of 750 m at nadir, five imaging resolution bands (I-bands) with a nominal spatial resolution of 375 m at nadir, and a day-night band (DNB) with a near-constant nominal 750 m spatial resolution throughout the scan. These bands are located in a visible and near-infrared focal plane assembly (FPA), a shortwave and midwave infrared FPA, and a long-wave infrared FPA. All bands, except the DNB, are coregistered for proper environmental data records retrievals. Observations from VIIRS instrument provide long-term measurements of biogeophysical variables for climate research and polar satellite data stream for the operational community's use in weather forecasting and disaster relief and other applications. Well Earth-located (geolocated) instrument data are important to retrieving accurate biogeophysical variables. This paper describes prelaunch pointing and alignment measurements, and the two sets of on-orbit correction of geolocation errors, the first of which corrected error from 1300 m to within 75 m (20% I-band pixel size) and the second of which fine-tuned scan-angle dependent errors, bringing VIIRS geolocation products to high maturity in one and a half years of the SNPP VIIRS on-orbit operations. Prelaunch calibration and the on-orbit characterization of sensor spatial impulse responses and band-to-band coregistration are also described.

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“…An interpolated curve for t in the range of 0 to 1 can be specified by setting the values of P(0), P(1), P'(0) and P' (1) and solving the resulting system of equations:…”

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“…A detailed description of this instrument and its early on-orbit performance is provided in [1]. VIIRS has 5 imagery resolution bands (bands I1 to I5) with 32 detectors each, 16 moderate resolution bands (bands M1 to M16) and a panchromatic day-night band (DNB) with 16 detectors each.…”

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Measurement of the Band-to-Band Registration of the SNPP VIIRS Imaging System From On-Orbit Data

Tilton

Lin

Tan

2017

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing

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-The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument was launched 28 October 2011 onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite. The VIIRS instrument is a whiskbroom system with 22 spectral and thermal bands split between 16 moderate resolution bands (Mbands), five imagery resolution bands (I-bands) and a day-night band. In this study we measure the along-scan and along-track band-to-band registration between the I-bands and M-bands from on-orbit data. This measurement is performed by computing the Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) between shifted image band pairs and finding the amount of shift required (if any) to produce the peak in NMI value. Subpixel accuracy is obtained by utilizing bicubic interpolation. The product of the NMI peak slope and the NMI peak value is shown to be a better criterion for evaluating the quality of the NMI result than just the NMI peak value. Registration shifts are found to be similar to pre-launch measurements and stable (within measurement error) over the instrument's first four years in orbit.

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“…[24] VIIRS EDRs will provide critical data used in environmental assessments, forecasts, and warnings [Cao et al, 2013a[Cao et al, , 2013b. Figure 8 is an imagery from the VIIRS unique Day Night band (DNB) of Hurricane Sandy.…”

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Joint Polar Satellite System: The United States next generation civilian polar‐orbiting environmental satellite system

Goldberg¹,

Kilcoyne²,

Cikanek³

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JGR Atmospheres

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NOAA's next generation polar‐orbiting environmental satellite system, designated as the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), was proposed in February 2010, as part of the President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request, to be the Civilian successor to the restructured National Polar‐Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). Beginning 1 October 2013, the JPSS baseline consists of a suite of five instruments: advanced microwave and infrared sounders critical for short‐ and medium‐range weather forecasting; an advanced visible and infrared imager needed for environmental assessments such as snow/ice cover, droughts, volcanic ash, forest fires and surface temperature; ozone sensor primarily used for global monitoring of ozone and input to weather and climate models; and an Earth radiation budget sensor for monitoring the Earth's energy budget. NASA will fund the Earth radiation budget sensor and the ozone limb sensor for the second JPSS operational satellite—JPSS‐2. JPSS is implemented through a partnership between NOAA and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NOAA is responsible for overall funding; maintaining the high‐level requirements; establishing international and interagency partnerships; developing the science and algorithms, and user engagement; NOAA also provides product data distribution and archiving of JPSS data. NASA's role is to serve as acquisition Center of Excellence, providing acquisition of instruments, spacecraft and the multimission ground system, and early mission implementation through turnover to NOAA for operations.

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Early On-Orbit Performance of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite

Cited by 444 publications

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Suomi NPP VIIRS prelaunch and on‐orbit geometric calibration and characterization

Suomi NPP VIIRS prelaunch and on‐orbit geometric calibration and characterization

Measurement of the Band-to-Band Registration of the SNPP VIIRS Imaging System From On-Orbit Data

Joint Polar Satellite System: The United States next generation civilian polar‐orbiting environmental satellite system

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