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The fewer bits that are used for signal discretization, the larger the quantization error in the measured radiance. In satellite inter-calibration, a difference in radiometric resolution between a reference and a target sensor can induce a calibration bias, if not properly accounted for. The effect is greater for satellites with a quadratic count response, such as the Geostationary Meteorological Satellite-5 (GMS-5) visible imager, where the quantization difference can introduce non-linearity in the inter-comparison datasets, thereby affecting the cross-calibration slope and offset. This paper describes a simulation approach to highlight the importance of considering the radiometric quantization in cross-calibration and presents a correction method for mitigating its impact. The method, when applied to the cross-calibration of GMS-5 and Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors, improved the absolute calibration accuracy of the GMS-5 imager. This was validated via radiometric inter-comparison of GMS-5 and Multifunction Transport Satellite-2 (MTSAT-2) imager top-of-atmosphere (TOA) measurements over deep convective clouds (DCC) and Badain Desert invariant targets. The radiometric bias between GMS-5 and MTSAT-2 was reduced from 1.9% to 0.5% for DCC, and from 7.7% to 2.3% for Badain using the proposed correction method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10071131","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,19]],"date-time":"2018-07-19T03:50:43Z","timestamp":1531972243000},"page":"1131","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Consideration of Radiometric Quantization Error in Satellite Sensor Cross-Calibration"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Rajendra","family":"Bhatt","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., 1 Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Doelling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}]},{"given":"Conor","family":"Haney","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., 1 Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}]},{"given":"Benjamin","family":"Scarino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., 1 Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}]},{"given":"Arun","family":"Gopalan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., 1 Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Xiong, X., Angal, A., Butler, J., Cao, C., Doelling, D.R., Wu, A., and Wu, X. 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