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Last Post 07 Jan 2014 03:31 PM by  anon
Geoeye-1 radiance gains/offsets not in metadata file
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07 Jan 2014 03:31 PM
    I've been searching for the band-specific radiance gains/offsets for GeoEye-1 imagery. The metadata file that came with my imagery has information such as sun azimuth, but I don't see anything that appears to be radiance gains. I have read this document (http://www.apollomapping....nce_at_Aperture.pdf) in hopes to convert what I believe to be digital numbers to exoatmospheric reflectance. My imagery is "Geo" level processed, so I understand that it has been radiometrically corrected, however does that mean that it is already in exoatmospheric radiance and I can proceed with converting that to exoatmospheric reflectance? I have contacted DigitalGlobe, but received no response. Because I am not technically a customer (I acquired the imagery through an unclassified high res imagery database) I cannot get technical support from them. I would also like to know if anyone has better technical information about the GeoEye-1 sensor -- I have scoured the literature and the internet and come up with very few white papers or anything detailed, other than the paper cited above. Thanks!

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    08 Jan 2014 10:10 AM
    I believe this was the case frequently with GeoEye data before they were acquired by DigitalGlobe. The recent Geoeye data I have seen come with an IMD file that contain the following: absCalFactor = 9.109200e-04; effectiveBandwidth = 6.000000e-02; The absCalFactor should be read by ENVI's radiometric calibration tool (ENVI 5.0 SP3 and higher) as gain and offsets are 0. Without knowing the gains, it will be difficult to know if your calibration to radiance is correct or not.

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    23 Jan 2014 07:00 PM
    If it's the pre-Digital Globe data, look for the Parameter Value Language metadata file (.pvl). That's the only place the calibration coefficients will be. There is a gain coefficient and the offset is 0.0000.
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