Questions tagged [reflectance]
Reflectance is the ratio of incident flux and reflected flux from a surface
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Implementing BRDF in R
I use UAS to survey vegetation at subcentimeter resolution for my research and have found that bidirectional reflectance (BR) is a huge issue that impacts the reliability of estimates across ...
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Calculation of TOA radiance from Sentinel-2 1C product reflectance
I was trying to convert the Sentinel-2 1C product to radiance and came across two links first once says
radiance = ((pixelValueBandX * cos(incidenceAngle) * solarIrradianceBandX) / (pi * d2)) / ...
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Calculating Reflectance from Parrot Sequoia DN
I am dealing with the images of a Parrot Sequoia. I could not pre-process the images in Pix4d because I took single shots in different parts (so there are not overlapping images).. for me it is ...
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Comparing Landast 8 Images?
I'm currently working with Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Level-2 Data Products - Surface Reflectance and I would like to compare different landsat images from different places on earth. I was wondering if pixels ...
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Conversion of Landsat ToA reflectance to BoA reflectance with an equation
I am using temporal datasets from Landsat 5, 7 and 8.
Since I have many datasets I would like to include the conversion from ToA(top of atmosphere) to BoA(bottom of atmosphere) reflectance into a ...
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Pansharpening for Landsat 8 surface reflectance in Google Earth Engine
I am trying to apply a pan-sharpening process to Landsat 8 surface reflectance product ('LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_SR'), however it lacks the panchromatic band, any one has tried using the Landsat 8 TOA ...
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Converting Landsat8 DN to TOA reflectance using GEE manually
I'm fairly new in Google Earth Engine and JavaScript. I'm trying to convert Landsat8 DN to TOA reflectance using GEE using a function.
// Load a raw Landsat scene and display it.
var image = ee.Image(...
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Blank table when exporting a feature selection of a image collection
I'm trying to get reflectance data of some points that i've gotten from another database through a Json table of pings.
I've used this code to get the data but returns only the title of columns with ...
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Landsat 8 - Reflectance Values
I downloaded some Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS C1 Level-1 images from EarthExplorer. I was hoping to get reflectance data out of the blue, green and red band; however, when I opened those images in ArcMap, the ...
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Is Sentinel-2A Band 8 (NIR band) has been affected by earth water vapor absorption feature?
I am starting working with S2A images. While looking at the bandwidth of S2A NIR band, it seems it has a wider area as Landsat-7 ETM+ NIR band. Previously I worked with L7 ETM+ NIR band and obtained ...
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Convert Planet Imagery Surface Reflectance product DN to surface reflectance values
I have a PlanetScope Ortho Scene Product (3B) which includes an AnalyticMS.tif and AnalyticMS_SR.tif files. Based on what I have read so far, the AnalyticMS_SR.tif file is scaled surface reflectance ...
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How to Correct Landsat 8 Imagery with TOA Reflectance >1 and <0?
I recently downloaded Landsat 8 T1 imagery and have ran into some difficulties during pre-processing. I applied the TOA reflectance and sun elevation corrections to Bands 2,3,4,5,6 using ArcGIS's ...
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How do I convert Digital Number (DN) to reflectance in order to analyze NDVI
I'm working with a mapir nir + red camera meaning that its blue band captures nir light and its red captures red normally. I understand that NDVI is calculated using reflectance values. My question ...
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Radiometric, reflectance and atmospheric correction for Landsat 8 image
I am struggling with the pre-processing process for landsat8 imagery.
I want to use some indices (e.g. NDVI, SAVI, EVI, NDMI) and create a land cover map at the end using ENVI and ArcGIS.
As a ...
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LiDAR returns over water bodies?
I have obtained LiDAR data from my environmental agency in order to obtain the relative heights of each watercourse station. A far as I know, LiDAR signals do not get returned over water bodies. ...
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Why reflectance map in pix4d dont are normalized
I want to know, why my reflectance map, dont have value between 0 and 1. Because my calibration table said me: for example red band has max value = 0.88 nm, and my reflectance map in red band have max ...
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Set multiple values to nodata - Erdas Imagine 2015
I am having trouble with the data ranges in the Landsat 8 surface reflectance product which I downloaded from USGS. The Lansat 8 surface reflectance handbook says the valid range is 0 - 10,000 range ...
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I can apply tasseled Cap transformation in surface reflectance (not ToA)?
I can not understand if I should adjust the Tasseled Cap index with the surface reflectance values or the Top of Atmosphere
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When to rescale reflectance data to calculate vegetation indices
I'm attempting to calculate a number of vegetation indices using hyperspectral AVIRIS data in ENVI. Some of these indices are normalized, such as NDVI, whereas others are not, such as the Transformed ...
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Negative Surface Reflectance
I am using Landsat Surface Reflectance Level-2 images. I have to convert the DNs to reflectance values. When I apply the formula provided in the Landsat8 User Handbook :
reflectance = ...
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Landsat8 surface reflectance rescaling pixel
Sorry for this basic question, but I am using Landsat8 images with "surface reflectance" treatment from Landsat8.
I am having some trouble with the data from some bands. Most of pixel are beyond 10k.
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Obtain reflectance map in pix4d?
I can not obtain my reflectance map in pix4D.
The program said:
Unable to computed radiometric calibraticon from sequoia. Unable to
computed coordinated system.
Its rare, because normally i ...
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How to get property of each image in a collection in google earth engine?
I am trying to convert ASTER image from DN values to reflectance. For this I require gain coefficient of each image in the collection I have gathered.
//Defining geometry
var geometry = ee.Geometry....
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Are landsat 8 SR and TOA rasters calibrated/corrected data or the data to be used for calibration/correction?
I downloaded Landsat 8 Level-2 scenes from https://espa.cr.usgs.gov/ for land cover classification. Following are the product list in the package, cause I ticked Top of Atmosphere Reflectance (TOA), ...
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What are the necessary correction/calibration on Landsat 8 imagery for land cover classification? [duplicate]
I downloaded calibrated/corrected Landsat 8 data (Level 2) from ESPA (https://espa.cr.usgs.gov/) to do land cover classification. But there are many corrections and calibrations can be done as listed ...
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Surface reflectance product - do I always need it?
There is a neat Surface Reflectance product of Landsat imagery. I know the difference between SR and raw products: SR presents calculated values, that are supposed to represent state of the Earth ...
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Negative values in Landsat 8 surface reflectance higher level product
I have downloaded Landsat 8 higher level surface reflectance product from USGS to genetare chlorophyll map in lake. But the individual bands contain some negative surface reflectance values. So, when ...
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Calculate reflectance for UAV images
I have high resolution images captured by a drone using a , they are RBG and NIR images. My question is how can I calculate the reflectance for the images, the values are currently in digital numbers (...
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Whole image cloud cover for LC8_SR?
I need to filter the LANDSAT/LC8_SR image collection using an assessment of total cloud cover in the entire scene of each image. i.e. each image in the collection is "in" or "out" based on a ...
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Sentinel-2 Reflectance calculation
which is the proceddure for reflectance calculation from Sentinel 2 1C products downloaded from ESA Scientific Hub?
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Landsat 7 - 8 surface reflectance bands from ESPA (LEDAPS)
I have downloaded some Level 1 and higher level imagery data including surface reflectance as well.
I should process these data in Idrisi (Selva) package.
The Level 1 images' pixel values are between ...
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Strange reflectance values in Sentinel-2 images over sea ice
I am dealing with Sentinel-2 (Level 1C) images over sea ice. I have downloaded some and was wondering: When I look e.g. at Band 8A, there are some images where the reflectance over the water between ...
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Calculating Albedo for Landsat 8 using QGIS with GRASS?
I am trying to estimate albedo for Landsat 8 OLI. The idea was to use the GRASS function i.albedo within the processing toolbox of QGIS. However, the option for Landsat 8 OLI is not available, ...
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Very low reflectance values landsat 7
I am getting very low reflectance values (mostly < 0.15) in all bands of multiple Landsat 7 scenes after having converted to TOA reflectance manually in ENVI. These values are not supposed to ...
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What is the range of values of Sentinel-2 Level 2A images?
I found in Level 2A Product Format Specifications Technical Note page29 that:
"The L2A Quantification Value is aligned with the L1C Quantification Value of the L1C product from which the L2A product ...
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A method to match narrow bands from in-situ spectrometer with Landsat-8 central band
Is there a way to resample Landsat-8 bands to match different bands from a spectrophotometer. I'm doing atmospheric correction, comparing in-situ reflectance measurements performed using 10-nm wide ...
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Sentinel-2 images color cast
I work with Sentinel-2 images (Level-1C products (top-of-atmosphere reflectances)). I would like to know why some of the images do have this blue(?) undertone/color cast. I think those images are from ...
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Landsat level-2 data comparison
I'm doing a temporal analysis of NDVI and temperature over 17 years, necessitating data from Landsat 5,7, & 8. I'm interested in using level-2 Landsat data available from https://espa.cr.usgs.gov/...
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eCognition - prevent rounding of raster values?
I have a WorldView2 image, which I would like to segment and classify in eCognition. The image has been pre-processed to Top of the Atmosphere Reflectance, therefore hasvalues between 0-1.
The ...
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Converting DNs to radiance and reflectance for Planet Labs Imagery
I am trying to convert pixel DNs to reflectance from a Planet BGRN Analytic Scene (from 2016, I can't tell what level it is processed to). However, I can't find info on the exo-atmospheric irradiance ...
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Difference between irradiance and radiance, remote sensing reflectance and water leaving radiance
I've been trying to lay my hands on textbooks, etc, that explain the differences between the remote sensing terms in lay man language.
radiance and irradiance
remote sensing reflectance and water ...
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Radiance to reflectance error ArcMap
I have been trying and failing for some time to convert the radiance to refectance by following step 4 in this tutorial
I have tried everything I can think of but my knowledge is limited. Would ...
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Landsat 8 reflectance values very low
I am getting very low reflectance values (mostly < 0.1) in Landsat 8 bands 2-7 on different scenes after rescaling from Digital Numbers (DN) to Reflectance. All scenes are in a tropical landscape ...
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view zenith angle of MODIS surface reflectance product and Landsat 8
I have a MODIS daily surface reflectance product (MYD09GA) which I'd like to validate Landsat 8 image with. I want to obtain pixels that only fall within the view zenith angle of Landsat 8 ( 0 - 7.5). ...
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Automatic conversion to surface reflectance (SCP)
I am practicing for SCP part by using Qgis 2.10.1.
I already download desired LANDSAT image from SCP>Download Landsat.
However, in Pre-processing part, after click Select directory button, the ...
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GOCI Radiance to Reflectance
How can I convert a GOCI satellite image from Radiance to Reflectance?
I have been searching through the internet, but most of them are related to other satellites. I try to calculate the reflectance ...
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Dark Object Subtraction using Top of Atmosphere Reflectance?
I'm working on a WorldView 3 image in QGIS and have been told to use Dark Object Subtraction (DOS) to atmospherically correct it to surface reflectance using the raster calculator. I have the Top of ...
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WorldView 3 level OR2a processing - do I have data as DNs?
I have a World View 3 image which is level Ortho Ready Standard Imagery
(OR2A) processed and I wish to ascertain what this processing level means.
I need to work on surface reflectance and am aware ...
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Sentinel 2A L1C product convertion from TOA reflectance to BOA reflectance
How can I convert the TOA reflectance values of L1C Sentinel2A products to BOA (Bottom Of Atmosphere) reflectance values?
Is there an equation?
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NDVI analysis of LANDSAT 8 imagery in QGIS
I am trying to run an NDVI classification of 2015 multispectral LT8 imagery in QGIS to assess the quality of vegetation cover in regards to habitat suitability for a primate species in northern ...
