Sensitivity analysis of temperature-emissivity separation method commonly applied to hyperspectral data to various sources of errors is performed in this paper. In terms of resulting errors in the process of retrieving surface temperature, results show that: (1) Satisfactory results can be obtained for heterogeneous land surfaces and retrieval error of surface temperature is small enough to be ...

Based on the analysis of three main factors involved in the relative radiometric calibration for optical sensors, namely: the number of radiance level; the number of measurements at each level; and the radiance level grouping method, an optimal strategy is presented in this paper for relative radiometric calibration. First, the maximization to the possible extent of either the number of the rad...

As there are few in situ observations in and around Antarctica, it is important to assess how assimilating remotely-sensed observations, such as satellite-observed radiances, can fill this observational gap. Thus, a month-long study was conducted over the Antarctic to examine forecast and analysis sensitivity to the assimilation of microwave radiance measurements. Several experiments were confi...

This paper reports on a preliminary experiment to undertake in-flight radiance calibration validation (cal-val) of the NERC CASI. The approach involved comparing CASI radiance values of a single, wellcharacterised target with synchronised measurements of target radiance obtained at the ground with a calibrated spectroradiometer. CASI data were obtained at two altitudes: 853m and 3109m, in spati...

Having in mind the high complexity of the sky radiance distribution, the Commission of the European Communities, in the frame of the Solar Energy R&D in the European Community Programme, developed among other related fields of research a clear sky radiance model. This model, the so-called EC-Model, was intended for the estimation of the diffuse irradiance falling on an inclined surface by integ...

A software package for the transformation of atmospheric and illumination conditions (T ASIC) has been implemented on the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing's Image Analysis System. This package offers three different transformations: (1) transformation to reflectance units; (2) transformation of illumination conditions; and (3) transformation to radiance units under standard atmospheric and illu...

A set of hyperspectral image data are made available, intended for use in modeling of imaging systems. The set contains images of faces, landscapes and buildings. The data cover wavelengths from 0.4 to 2.5 micrometers, spanning the visible, NIR and SWIR electromagnetic spectral ranges. The images have been recorded with two HySpex line-scan imaging spectrometers covering the spectral ranges 0.4...

This paper presents processes and performance for ground-based measurements used by The Boeing Company and RESOURCE21 for vicarious calibration tests of airborne and satellite multispectral and hyperspectral sensors. We highlight our methodology for measuring downwelling irradiance and scene radiance and reflectance from 400 to 2500 nm, and describe in-house enhancements made to commercial spec...

This paper presents our research and development of system interfaces between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM), for supporting integrated architectural design and energy simulation. Our methods utilize the BIM authoring tools’ Application Programming Interface (API) to translate BIM into Object-Oriented Physical Models (in Modelica) for building thermal sim...

In the supplementary material, we provide additional results and discussion of several parts of the main paper. 1. Effects of Non-Idealities In this section, we show simulations for studying the effects of non-idealities of the wedge geometry on edge radiance profiles. These simulations complement the discussion fo Section 4 of the main paper. Figures 1 and 2 show simulations for the effect of ...