Retrieval of at-sensor irradiance using Incident Light Sensor (ILS)
Retrieval of at-sensor irradiance using Incident Light Sensor (ILS)
A number of aircraft sensors have the facility to measure spectral downwelling irradiance using a sensor mounted on the roof of the aircraft, but these data are rarely used for atmospheric correction.
Part of the problem is that the attitude of the airborne platform is always changing during flight, even in stable conditions, so that direct use of data from an incident light sensor (ILS) can introduce errors into atmospheric correction methods.
The continual motion of the ILS is used here to advantage, as a means to fit a sky radiance distribution model developed by Brunger and Hooper (1993) to data from the Itres Instruments CASI ILS. The inclination of the ILS sensor, due to changing aircraft attitude, is considered as the slope plane in the model. The selected model coefficients correspond to parameterised atmospheric conditions, i.e. clearness index and diffuse ratio. The ILS data corrected by the model are wellmatched
to variations of irradiance measured at ground level during three flights. The radiance distribution at sensor level is also calculated by the model, and shows the characteristics of the sky conditions at the time of each flight.
Choi, Kyu-Young
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Milton, E.J.
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2002
Choi, Kyu-Young
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Milton, E.J.
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Choi, Kyu-Young and Milton, E.J.
(2002)
Retrieval of at-sensor irradiance using Incident Light Sensor (ILS).
Fifth International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
22 - 24 May 2002.
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A number of aircraft sensors have the facility to measure spectral downwelling irradiance using a sensor mounted on the roof of the aircraft, but these data are rarely used for atmospheric correction.
Part of the problem is that the attitude of the airborne platform is always changing during flight, even in stable conditions, so that direct use of data from an incident light sensor (ILS) can introduce errors into atmospheric correction methods.
The continual motion of the ILS is used here to advantage, as a means to fit a sky radiance distribution model developed by Brunger and Hooper (1993) to data from the Itres Instruments CASI ILS. The inclination of the ILS sensor, due to changing aircraft attitude, is considered as the slope plane in the model. The selected model coefficients correspond to parameterised atmospheric conditions, i.e. clearness index and diffuse ratio. The ILS data corrected by the model are wellmatched
to variations of irradiance measured at ground level during three flights. The radiance distribution at sensor level is also calculated by the model, and shows the characteristics of the sky conditions at the time of each flight.
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