Four years of Landsat-7 on-orbit geometric calibration and performance
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
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Abstract
Unlike its predecessors, Landsat-7 has undergone regular geometric and radiometric performance monitoring and calibration since launch in April 1999. This ongoing activity, which includes issuing quarterly updates to calibration parameters, has generated a wealth of geometric performance data over the four-year on-orbit period of operations. A suite of geometric characterization (measurement and evaluation procedures) and calibration (procedures to derive improved estimates of instrument parameters) methods are employed by the Landsat-7 Image Assessment System to maintain the geometric calibration and to track specific aspects of geometric performance. These include geodetic accuracy, band-to-band registration accuracy, and image-to-image registration accuracy. These characterization and calibration activities maintain image product geometric accuracy at a high level - by monitoring performance to determine when calibration is necessary, generating new calibration parameters, and verifying that new parameters achieve desired improvements in accuracy. Landsat-7 continues to meet and exceed all geometric accuracy requirements, although aging components have begun to affect performance.
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Lee, D., Storey, J.C., Choate, M., and Hayes, R.W., 2004, Four years of Landsat-7 on-orbit geometric calibration and performance: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v. 42, no. 12, p. 2786-2795, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2004.836769.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Four years of Landsat-7 on-orbit geometric calibration and performance |
| Series title | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
| DOI | 10.1109/TGRS.2004.836769 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Year Published | 2004 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 10 p. |
| First page | 2786 |
| Last page | 2795 |