1 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through ITR program grant No CCR 0296082, and by NASA through a grant from the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) managed through the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia. 2 Correspondence author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract

The colorimetric error depends on the spectrophotometric inaccuracy. In this paper, a ‎new method is introduced for determining the relationship between spectrophotometric ‎error and colorimetric inaccuracy. The error propagation in colorimetric parameter ‎calculation is evaluated using a linear relation between variance of reflectance spectra ‎and CIE tristimulus values. This linear formula ca...