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Therefore, in-flight calibration is a prerequisite for its inversion application. For large field optical sensors, it is very challenging to ensure the consistency of radiation detection in the whole field of view in the space environment. Our work proposes a vicarious in-flight calibration method based on sea non-equipment sites (visible bands) and land non-equipment sites (all bands). Combined with environmental parameters and radiation transmission calculations, we evaluated the radiation detection accuracy of the 0\u00b0 to 60\u00b0 view zenith angle of the DPC in each band. Our calibration method is based on the single-day normalized radiance data measured by the DPC. Through data selection, enough calibration samples can be obtained in a single day (the number of desert samples is more than 5000, and the number of calibration samples of the ocean is more than 2.8\u00d7106). The measurements are compared with the simulation of 6SV VRT code or look-up tables. The massive amount of data averages the uncertainty of a single-point calculation. Although the uncertainty of a single sample is significant, the final fitting of the curve of the variation in the radiometric calibration coefficient with the observation angle can still keep the root mean squared error at approximately 2\u20133% or even lower, and for visible bands, the calibration results for both ocean sites and desert sites are in good agreement regarding the non-uniformity of the sensor.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13193823","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,27]],"date-time":"2021-09-27T22:16:38Z","timestamp":1632780998000},"page":"3823","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["The Operational Inflight Radiometric Uniform Calibration of a Directional Polarimetric Camera"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5393-7548","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Feinan","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Donggen","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6488-1914","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Benyong","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Liang","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shule","family":"Ge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jin","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jqsrt.2018.07.003","article-title":"Directional Polarimetric Camera (DPC): Monitoring aerosol spectral optical properties over land from satellite observation","volume":"218","author":"Li","year":"2018","journal-title":"J. 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