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Last Post 23 Feb 2009 03:44 AM by  anon
Negative Reflectance Value after FLAASH
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23 Feb 2009 03:44 AM
    Guys, Need some help. I'm dealing with Quickbird images. Converting from DN to radiance seems to run smoothly in ENVI. But after FLAASH, majority of pixels are in negative values. Just couldnt understand the logic because there were no negative value in radiance image. Aren't reflectance is the ratio of incoming and outgoing radiance? There should be no negative values. Am I right? Anybody can help? Thanks in advance.

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    23 Feb 2009 08:16 AM
    Did you use ENVI's QuickBird radiance tool to convert the DN to radiance?  Did you leave the default parameter 'Scale Output to Integers' to 'Yes' so that the output radiance values are scaled by 1000?  If so, did you enter 1000 as the scale factor in FLAASH?  An incorrect scale factor is often the issue when you get unexpected reflectance results.  However, it is not uncommon to get some pixels that are negative reflectance.  If you have a very low radiance value (for example, a pixel in shade), then FLAASH may not be able to model the reflectance accurately and you can get some negative reflectance values.  It just means for those pixels, the results are unreliable and therefore should be excluded.

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    23 Feb 2009 06:32 PM
    Thanks a lot mminari!. Its work. I still got negative values but it is now acceptable. Just a small question, you mentioned that the scale factor for FLAASH in your reply is 1000. However, the default value is 10,000. Which one is right? Anyway, read somewhere in this forum that, if I used 10,000 as FLAASH scale factor, i need to divide my reflectance with 10,000.00 in order to get actual reflectance. So if I used 1,000, then I need to divide my reflectance to 1,000. Right?  Thanks for your prompt reply. Really appreciate it.

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    24 Feb 2009 11:33 AM
    Yes, you are correct.  The output reflectance is scaled by 10000.  I left off a 0! :)
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