What is sensor radiance?

What is sensor radiance?

Radiance at the Sensor’s Aperture Radiance is the “flux of energy (primarily irradiant or incident energy) per solid angle leaving a unit surface area in a given direction”, “Radiance is what is measured at the sensor and is somewhat dependent on reflectance” (NASA, 2011, p. 47).

What is radiance in image processing?

Radiance is the amount of radiation coming from an area. To derive a radiance image from an uncalibrated image, a gain and offset must be applied to the pixel values. Radiance includes radiation reflected from the surface,bounced in from neighboring pixels, and reflected from clouds above the area of the pixel.

What is spectral radiance in remote sensing?

A fundamental goal of hyperspectral remote sensing is to extract information related to the intrinsic spectral properties of remotely imaged objects. The remotely sensed observable is called pupil-plane spectral radiance, as it relates to the measureable quantity at an entrance pupil of a hyperspectral sensor.

What is radiance value?

Radiance is the amount of radiation coming from an area. To derive a radiance image from an uncalibrated image, a gain and offset must be applied to the pixel values. These gain and offset values are typically retrieved from the image’s metadata or received from the data provider.

What are the units of radiance?

The SI unit of radiance is watts per square meter per steradian [W/m2-sr]. Since many radiation sources used in laboratories have emitting area in the square millimeters range, the unit of milliwatts per square millimeter per steradian [mW/mm2-sr] is often used for radiance.

What is surface radiance?

In radiometry, radiance is the radiant flux emitted, reflected, transmitted or received by a given surface, per unit solid angle per unit projected area.

What is BOA reflectance?

BOA in turn represents the actual reflectance of the areas on the surface of the Earth. The BOA values are calculated from the TOA values by using a physical model (Sen2Cor tool for Sentinel-2), with an attempt to eliminate the effect of the atmosphere on the reflectance values.

What is radiance or brightness?

Radiance is often casually called “brightness”, a term also used in photometry to describe the perception of human eyes looking at a light source. An example of brightness perception will be given in the following section.

What is angle of radiance?

What is TOA and BOA?

TOA: Top of the Atmosphere BOA: Bottom of the Atmosphere.

What does radiance look like?

Radiance is a type of glowing: either from a light source like the sun or a healthy, beaming person. A sign of radiance in a person is a wide smile, and pregnant women are often said to have a glow or radiance because they’re full of life.