# Presentation: 742370

## MODIS Aqua PSF (Point Spread Function)

**MODIS Aqua PSF ****(Point Spread Function)**

**Gerhard Meister, OBPG**
**NASA Goddard Space Flight Center**
**(Futuretech Corp.)**
**January 4, 2006 **

**Notes:**
 monitoring harmful blooms from space gives coastal communities ability to take precautionary measures
 fishing bans
 beach closures
 image shows true color (top) and chlorophyll (bottom)  views of bloom in mouth of Mississippi
 similar information was used to monitor a red tide bloom off coast of Texas last fall

## Background

- Ocean color remote sensing imposes very stringent requirements on radiometric accuracy of bands relative to each other.
- Stray light effects are very large for bright clouds next to dark ocean water.
- Theoretical solution: correction with point-spread function (PSF).
- Problems: PSF not well characterized, light source intensity sometimes unknown, computationally very expensive.

## PSF definition:

**L****m**** (i****0****,j****0****) = ********ij ****PSF(i- i****0****,j- j****0****)*L****T****(i,j)**
- Lm = Measured radiance
- LT = True radiance
- PSF = Point Spread Function
- i = line index
- j = column index

- PSF kernel 25x25:
- i= i0-12, i0 -11,..., i0+11, i0+12
- j= j0-12, j0 -11,..., j0+11, j0+12

## Available from SBRS:

- LSF (Line Spread Functions): smaller slit, 1 pixel from either side of slit, dynamic range 1-10-3, scan and (simulated) track direction
- NFR (Near Field Response) measurements: scans of 1x10 slit (slit in track direction), up to 100 pixels to either side of peak, dynamic range 1-10-7
- NFR modeling: scatter model, certain shape parameters, no absolute scale for PSF

## Creation of PSF:

- Adjust center value
- and scale parameter
- from SBRS model
- (Harvey-Shack) so
- that NFR measure-
- ments are reproduced

- Assume that PSF of adjacent pixel in scan direction is given by
- 0.125/0.75 (theoretical value from Geolocation ATBD) of
- center value, adjacent pixel in track direction is 5% (from LSF)

## NFR measurements and model: Band 11

## NFR measurements and model: All bands

## Paper by Qiu et al. on Terra PSF:

## Slide 9

## Aqua and Terra: Band 11 with Lcloud/Ltypical=20

- Aqua and Terra: Band 11 with Lcloud/Ltypical=20

## Aqua: all bands with Lcloud/Ltypical=20 (PSF size:512x512)

## Aqua: all bands with Lcloud/Ltypical from 10-40

## Same as before, but 10x10 pixel cloud

## 10x10 pixel cloud, band 11 only, different PSF sizes

## 100x100 pixel cloud, band 11 only

## Summary

- Created Aqua PSF based on SBRS model and NFR measurements
- For huge clouds, TOA radiances 50 pixels away from cloud will be contaminated up to 1% (even after correcting with 101x101 PSF)
- For 100x100 clouds, radiances will be up to 0.5% too high after correction with 25x25 PSF (0.2% for 51x51)
- For small clouds, radiances can be adequately corrected with 25x25 PSF as close as 2 pixels to the cloud

## Outlook:

- Still need to check the model in track direction
- Refinement needed for adjacent pixel
- Validate with real data (nLw should ‘look better’, but more noise is expected)
- If successful, implement into SeaDAS as an option
- Work with MCST on Terra PSF derivation/validation

## Backup slides: