Methods for atmospheric correction of solar-wavelength hyperspectral imagery over land
US7337065B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 23, 2001 |
| Grant date | Feb 26, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 21, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30181
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
This invention discloses several improved methods of correcting for atmospheric effects on a remote image of the Earth's surface taken from above, wherein the image comprises a number of simultaneously acquired images of the same scene, each including a large number of pixels, each at a different wavelength band, and including infrared through ultraviolet wavelengths. One method is for retrieving the aerosol/haze amount (i.e., visible range) from an assumed ratio of in-band reflectances, rather than from an assumed reflectance value. Another method is for identifying cloud-containing pixels. This is used to improve the calculation of the spatially averaged radiance L*e and reflectance ρe images in standard equations. Another method greatly reduces the number of mathematical operations required to generate the reflectance values. This method operates by averaging the water vapor and ρe values over small groups of neighboring pixels, so that the same A, B, S, L*a parameter values may also be assigned to all pixels within the group. Yet another new method accounts for shifts in the wavelength calibration within the image, such as would be caused by spectral “smile”. This method loops …
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