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34 2. Remote Sensing with MODIS<br />

Figure 2.12 – Three types of stripe noise on Terra MODIS Level 1B geolocated calibrated<br />

radiances (Left) Detector-to-<strong>de</strong>tector stripes (Band 27) (Center) Mirror si<strong>de</strong> stripes<br />

(Band 9) (Right) Random stripes (Band 33). All the images are 200×200 pixels in size<br />

with a resolution of 1km<br />

mo<strong>de</strong>. Typical cases of mirror banding can be seen in homogeneous areas contaminated<br />

with sun glint or high concentrations of aerosol. The analysis of oceanographic data indicates<br />

that mirror banding reaches a maximal amplitu<strong>de</strong> in the specular direction, (highest<br />

level of sun glint) and tends to fa<strong>de</strong> away as the sun glint intensity <strong>de</strong>creases. This shows<br />

that mirror si<strong>de</strong> stripes are <strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt on the signal level and can be correlated with the<br />

scan angle.<br />

Detector-to-<strong>de</strong>tector stripes take the form of a periodic pattern of stripes and unlike mirror<br />

banding they cover entire MODIS swaths. Studies related to other sensors Horn and<br />

Woodham [1979], attribute the presence of these periodic stripes to a poor gain/offset<br />

calibration of the indivual <strong>de</strong>tectors composing the sensor. Furthermore, <strong>de</strong>tectors responses<br />

display strong non linear effects in the low radiance range (figure 3.4).<br />

The third type of stripes are random and appear clearly on Terra MODIS band 33 as<br />

black and white stripes with a limited lenght over a given scan line. Noisy stripes are<br />

presumably due to errors in the internal system and random noise.<br />

The processing of level 1B data to level 2 geophysical products does not inclu<strong>de</strong> a correcting<br />

algorithm for striping. The most recent version of MODIS data (collection 5),<br />

inclu<strong>de</strong>s a <strong>de</strong>striping procedure [] limited only to land surface reflectances. As atmospheric<br />

correction and bio-optical algorithms combine the information from multiple spectral<br />

bands to generate level 2 data, striping tends to be emphazised in the <strong>de</strong>rived geophysical<br />

products. Mirror banding clearly affects ocean colour products such as normalized<br />

water leaving radiance and chlorophyll concentration (figure 2.13). Level 2 daytime Sea<br />

Surface Temperature (SST) is computed from bands 31 and 32, and shows evi<strong>de</strong>nce of<br />

<strong>de</strong>tector-to-<strong>de</strong>tector stripes. Going further in MODIS processing chain, striping appears<br />

to persist even in level 3 products, altough this effect migh also be originating from the<br />

poor resolution of level 3 data (4km). It is clear, that stripe noise on level 1B data impacts<br />

the quality of higher level products and needs to be corrected efficiently before the gene-

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