AbstractA consistent, continuous record of post-launch calibration and performance of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) onboard the polar orbiting NOAA-7, NOAA-9, and NOAA-11 satellites, spanning the period from 1981 to present, has been produced under the NOAA/NASA AVHRR Pathfinder project. The relative degradation rates for the AVHRR visible (channel 1; ≈0.63μm) and near-infrared (channel 2; ≈0.83μm) channels have been established using the southeastern part of the Libyan desert as a calibration target. The degradation rates are of the order of a few percent per year for both channels. Channel 2 is observed to degrade at a faster rate than channel 1 for the AVHRRs on NOAA-7 and NOAA-11; this trend is reversed for the AVHRR on NOAA-9. The degradation rates obtained in the present study are comparable to results obtained by other, independent methods of post-launch calibration.
Recalibration of the advanced very high resolution radiometer for climate change research
Advances in Space Research ; 14 , 1 ; 117-120
1993-01-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Recalibration of The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer for Climate Change Research
Online Contents | 1994
|Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
NTIS | 1978
Advanced very high resolution radiometer
NTRS | 1978