Radiometric calibration of a non-imaging airborne spectrometer to measure the Greenland ice sheet surface

Crawford, Christopher J.; van den Bosch, Jeannette; Brunt, Kelly M.; Hom, Milton G.; Cooper, John W.; Harding, David J.; Butler, James J.; Dabney, Philip W.; Neumann, Thomas A.; Cleckner, Craig S.; Markus, Thorsten

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1913-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1913-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1913-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Research article

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26 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 26 Mar 2019

Radiometric calibration of a non-imaging airborne spectrometer to measure the Greenland ice sheet surface

Christopher J. Crawford, Jeannette van den Bosch, Kelly M. Brunt, Milton G. Hom, John W. Cooper, David J. Harding, James J. Butler, Philip W. Dabney, Thomas A. Neumann, Craig S. Cleckner, and Thorsten Markus

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RC1: 'Review of Radiometric calibration of a non-imaging airborne spectrometer to measure the Greenland Ice Sheet surface, by Crawford et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Author Response to Anonymous Referee 2 Review of Crawford et al.', Christopher Crawford, 18 Dec 2018
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #3, 21 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Author Response to Anonymous Referee 3 'review' of Crawford et al.', Christopher Crawford, 15 Jan 2019

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AR by Christopher Crawford on behalf of the Authors (30 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Feb 2019) by Alexander Kokhanovsky

AR by Christopher Crawford on behalf of the Authors (06 Mar 2019)

Short summary

This paper presents laboratory and in-flight radiometric methods to calibrate and deploy a full-spectrum non-imaging airborne visible-to-shortwave infrared (VSWIR) spectrometer to measure polar ice sheet surface optical properties. Using an atmospheric radiative transfer model and coincident Landsat 8 multispectral image, this study concluded that it is possible to measure bright Greenland ice and dark bare rock/soil targets at an airborne remote sensing uncertainty of between 0.6 and 4.7.