Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) radiometric performance on-orbit
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Abstract
Expectations of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) radiometric performance onboard Landsat-8 have been met or exceeded. The calibration activities that occurred prior to launch provided calibration parameters that enabled ground processing to produce imagery that met most requirements when data were transmitted to the ground. Since launch, calibration updates have improved the image quality even more, so that all requirements are met. These updates range from detector gain coefficients to reduce striping and banding to alignment parameters to improve the geometric accuracy. This paper concentrates on the on-orbit radiometric performance of the OLI, excepting the radiometric calibration performance. Topics discussed in this paper include: signal-to-noise ratios that are an order of magnitude higher than previous Landsat missions; radiometric uniformity that shows little residual banding and striping, and continues to improve; a dynamic range that limits saturation to extremely high radiance levels; extremely stable detectors; slight nonlinearity that is corrected in ground processing; detectors that are stable and 100% operable; and few image artifacts.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) radiometric performance on-orbit |
| Series title | Remote Sensing |
| DOI | 10.3390/rs70202208 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 30 p. |
| First page | 2208 |
| Last page | 2237 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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