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Last Post 06 May 2010 09:28 AM by  anon
Reflectances to Radiances or NDs
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06 May 2010 09:28 AM
    Hi! :) Does anybody know how to convert a Flaash reflectace image output to radiances? and convert it to NDs? Has Envi any tool for making this? Thank you very much, bye!    

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    11 May 2010 09:08 AM
    Well, if you want a radiance image, why would you have performed a FLAASH correction?  The whole point of FLAASH is to convert your input radiance image to reflectance.  Maybe you want to just stick with your input radiance image, and forget the FLAASH step? Peg

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    09 Jun 2010 02:13 AM
    Hi, I want my output values to radiances or DNs in order to compare corrected results with the original input. Antway, how could it be made? Thanks!

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    12 Jun 2010 09:07 PM
    The answer to your question about converting reflectance back to radiance can either be a simple one or a hard one, depending on what you're trying to achieve with your comparison. If you just want to do a very general comparison to radiance values of some other dataset or something, such that you just want to see if the numbers are reasonable, peak in the right place, etc., then you can probably get away with something pretty simple. Just take the equation for apparent reflectance and solve it for radiance. Your resulting radiances will not be technically correct of course, but might be close enough for your purposes. As luck would have it, another poster on another thread posted a link to a nice definition of apparent reflectance: http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/eo1/faq.php?id=21 Now, if you want a rigorous conversion that considers things like atmospheric gases, that will be considerably harder. You'd have to know all the steps that were done to create the reflectance in the first place, then reverse those - the modelling of atmospheric gases, etc. I don't remember what kind of outputs FLAASH gives you, but this seems likely to be very difficult to do and not likely to yield a lot of good results, but that depends on your goals.
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