Campaign objectives
Objectives of the Tuz Golu campaign:
- Evaluate differences in field instrument primary calibrations
- Reference standards used and traceability (based on “Laboratory” information)
- On-site calibrations/validations
- Evaluate differences in methods for characterising and assigning “radiometric value” to a site, for multiple view angles
- Small area for high-resolution imagers
- Large area for medium-resolution imagers
- Establish formal traceability of Tuz Gölü reference site based on an evaluation of all comparison results.
- Establish “best practice” guidance for above and/or knowledge of variance between methodologies.
- A multi-sensor (satellite and aircraft) comparison linked to the ground calibration derived from the multi-team comparison.
- Identify the minimum and ideal specifications for characterisation/instrumentation for a CEOS “reference standard”
In-Situ / Reference data
Local (In Situ Data stored in the CalValPortal)
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