Evaluation and comparison of the IRS-P6 and the landsat sensors
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
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Abstract
The Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P6), also called ResourceSat-1, was launched in a polar sun-synchronous orbit on October 17, 2003. It carries three sensors: the highresolution Linear Imaging Self-Scanner (LISS-IV), the mediumresolution Linear Imaging Self-Scanner (LISS-III), and the Advanced Wide-Field Sensor (AWiFS). These three sensors provide images of different resolutions and coverage. To understand the absolute radiometric calibration accuracy of IRS-P6 AWiFS and LISS-III sensors, image pairs from these sensors were compared to images from the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat-7 Enhanced TM Plus (ETM+) sensors. The approach involves calibration of surface observations based on image statistics from areas observed nearly simultaneously by the two sensors. This paper also evaluated the viability of data from these nextgeneration imagers for use in creating three National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) products: land cover, percent tree canopy, and percent impervious surface. Individual products were consistent with previous studies but had slightly lower overall accuracies as compared to data from the Landsat sensors.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Evaluation and comparison of the IRS-P6 and the landsat sensors |
| Series title | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
| DOI | 10.1109/TGRS.2007.907426 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 13 p. |
| First page | 209 |
| Last page | 221 |
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