On-orbit calibration of the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 Optical Sensor using the Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer

Describes an experiment to calibrate the Optical Sensor (OPS) on board the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 (JERS-1) with data acquired by the Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS). On the 27th of August 1992 both the OPS and AVIRIS acquired data concurrently over a calibration target on the surface of Rogers Dry Lake, California. The high spectral resolution measurements of AVIRIS have been convolved to the spectral response curves of the OPS and used to generate the radiometric calibration coefficients for the eight bands of the OPS. This experiment establishes the suitability of AVIRIS for the calibration of spaceborne sensors in the 400 to 2500 nm spectral region