Spectral Aging Model Applied to Meteosat First Generation Visible Band

Spectral Aging Model Applied to Meteosat First Generation Visible Band

The Meteosat satellites have been operational since the early eighties, creating so far a continuous time period of observations of more than 30 years. In order to use this data for climate data records, a consistent calibration is necessary between the consecutive instruments. Studies have shown that the Meteosat First Generation (MFG) satellites (1982–2006) suffer from in-flight degradation w...

Spectral Diversity Methods Applied to DEM Generation from Repeat-Pass P-Band InSAR

Single-pass SAR interferometry is an established method for generation of precise digital elevation models (DEM). Although being a well established technique, it has one main disadvantage: At X-band, the penetration of the waves into vegetation layers is very small; the interferometric phase centre, which is measured by the interferometer, lies close to the top of the vegetation. An alternative...

Simulating Meteosat-7 broadband radiances using two visible channels of Meteosat-8

This paper addresses the conversion of narrow-to-broadband radiances in the special case of the sensor SEVIRI onboard the satellite Meteosat-8 of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG). The advent of this new program poses the problem of the transfer of operational procedures from the previous satellite Meteosat-7 to MSG. Among these operational procedures are several different implementations of...

Meteosat Second Generation Cirrus Detection Algorithm MeCiDA

Using a MODIS Index to Quantify MODIS-AVHRRs Spectral Differences in the Visible Band

Spectral band differences are a critical issue for progressing into an integrated earth observation framework and in particular, in sensor intercalibration. The differences are currently normalized using spectral band adjustment factor (SBAF) that is generated from hyperspectral data. In this context, the current study proposes a method for calculating moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiome...