ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2020, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 67-76

Radiometric characteristics of multispectral satellite imaging systems KMSS-M on board Meteor-M No. 2 and KMSS-2 on board Meteor-M No. 2-2 satellites

T.V. Kondratieva 1 , B.S. Zhukov 1 , I.V. Polyanskiy 1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Accepted: 09.12.2020
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2020-17-7-67-76
The multispectral satellite Earth remote sensing systems (KMSS) operate on board Meteor-M satellites, which are parts of the Meteor-3M space system of hydrometeorological and oceanographic support. KMSS are medium-resolution instruments designed to survey the Earth’s surface in a swath of about 1000 km in three VNIR spectral bands. KMSS-2 (launched in July 2019 on-board the Meteor-M No. 2-2 s/c) is the next modernized generation of ERS instrument after KMSS-M on the Meteor-M No. 2 s/c. In this work, the radiometric data of KMSS-M and KMSS-2 are analyzed. The comparison results of the KMSS and MODIS data obtained during in-flight calibrations in 2020 over the homogeneous snow cover of Antarctica are presented. The difference in the radiometric calibration of these instruments was estimated at 1–5 %, the root-mean-squared (RMS) deviation of the KMSS and MODIS reflectance measurements was found to be within 0.05.
Keywords: KMSS-M, KMSS-2, multispectral satellite imaging system, Meteor-M No. 2, Meteor-M No. 2-2, MODIS, Terra, Aqua, reflectance, in-flight radiometric calibration and validation, remote sensing of the Earth
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