Radiometric Correction

Radiometric correction is important to ensure that terrestrial variables retrieved from optical satellite sensor systems are calibrated to a common physical scale. Radiometric correction is one of several corrections performed on satellite image data prior to the retrieval of land, atmosphere, and ocean information. These preprocessing procedures are essential for ensuring high-quality information from remote sensors. Radiometric correction ensures that measurements and methods yield self-consistent and accurate geophysical and biophysical data, even though the measurements are made with a variety of different satellite sensors under different observational conditions and the parameter retrieval methodologies vary.