Calibration Considerations and Scoring the Quality of Calibration

This paper gives an introduction to “Guidelines for Radiometric Calibration of Electro-Optical Instruments for Remote Sensing” and includes a typical calibration timeline, discussion on why calibration is necessary, a couple examples of calibration success, typical imaging radiometer calibration parameters, lessons learned considerations, why on-board sources are important to calibration, examples on-board calibration source types, and considerations for scoring the quality of calibration.