FLARE network performance:  automated on-demand calibration for space, airborne and UAV assets

Jeff Holt; Chris Durell; Brandon Russell; David Conran; Will Arnold; Stephen Schiller

doi:10.1117/12.2587963

12 April 2021 FLARE network performance: automated on-demand calibration for space, airborne and UAV assets

Jeff Holt, Chris Durell, Brandon Russell, David Conran, Will Arnold, Stephen Schiller

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Proceedings Volume 11748, Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing, and Security for Vehicles and Infrastructure 2021; 117480K (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2587963
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Labsphere has created automated vicarious calibration sites using the SPecular Array Radiometric Calibration (SPARC) mirror technology in the new Field Line-of-sight Automated Radiance Exposure (FLARE) network. A short introduction to FLARE and SPARC will be given showing how arduous field ground calibrations can now be done remotely through FLARE nodes via an internet portal. Preliminary results of the performance of the system’s absolute radiometric and spatial calibration capability were published in 2020, demonstrating validation and uncertainty against current methods of remote calibration and spatial and geometric performance against edge and line targets. This paper will describe FLARE’s impact to ongoing evaluation and maturation of automated analysis processes for all data processing levels for space satellite and UAV imagers.

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Jeff Holt, Chris Durell, Brandon Russell, David Conran, Will Arnold, and Stephen Schiller "FLARE network performance: automated on-demand calibration for space, airborne and UAV assets", Proc. SPIE 11748, Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing, and Security for Vehicles and Infrastructure 2021, 117480K (12 April 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2587963

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