ESA-Earthnet Experience In High Resolution Sensor Performance

The radiometric performance of the Landsat Thematic Mapper instrument has been demonstrated to be within target specifications although additional system corrections can be modeled and corrected for. This paper characterizes two radiometric error sources, the so-called "scan-correlated shift" and "memory effect" from measurements performed in the shutter obscuration region. The variability of the reference zero radiance background level is described as a function of minor-frame position, detector, scan and scene.