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Chapitre 3<br />

Standard <strong>de</strong>striping techniques<br />

and application to MODIS<br />

3.1 Data<br />

The characteristics of stripe noise on the MODIS instrument are more complex than<br />

those observed on other imaging spectrometers. We shall see that early <strong>de</strong>striping techniques<br />

<strong>de</strong>velopped to improve the quality of Landsat MSS/TM images, provi<strong>de</strong> unsatisfactory<br />

results for MODIS data. As illustrated in figure 2.12, images extracted from MODIS<br />

are contaminated with three different types of stripes, ubiquitous on few spectral bands.<br />

Although this increases the difficulties associated with <strong>de</strong>striping, it constitutes - in addition<br />

to the importance of MODIS in earth science research - a complementary motivation<br />

to explore new techniques.<br />

Despite a growing number of <strong>de</strong>striping methodologies, very few take into account particular<br />

cases of stripe noise. In fact, a major concern on MODIS is the presence of random<br />

stripes, so far discussed only in [Rakwatin et al., 2007]. In this chapter, we explore several<br />

techniques and we analyse the results obtained on images extracted from specific emissive<br />

bands of MODIS.<br />

The algorithms <strong>de</strong>scribed in each section are applied on both Terra and Aqua level 1B<br />

TOA calibrated radiances. Given the consi<strong>de</strong>rable size of MODIS swaths (2330 km cross<br />

track ), we illustrate most of the results on 512 × 512 sub-images to allow accurate visual<br />

examination of small scale features. We specifically selected bands 27, 30 and 33 for Terra<br />

MODIS and bands 27, 30 and 36 for Aqua MODIS as they are representative of an extreme<br />

case due to severe striping with strong non-linear effects. All these bands display periodic<br />

stripes (mainly <strong>de</strong>tector-to-<strong>de</strong>tector), except band 33 of Terra MODIS which contains<br />

mostly random stripes. The data set used for this study is composed of three images for<br />

Terra MODIS and three images for Aqua MODIS, each extracted from a different spectral<br />

band (see figure 3.1). The scene captured by Terra MODIS was acquired on July 1 st , 2009<br />

in the Mediterannean Sea. The images from Aqua MODIS were acquired on November

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