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When stray light control by design is insufficient to reach the performance requirement, correction by post-processing must be considered. This situation is encountered, for example, in the case of the Earth observation instrument 3MI, whose stray light properties are complex due to the presence of many ghosts distributed on the detector array. We implement an iterative correction method and discuss its convergence properties. Spatial and field binning can be employed to reduce the computation time but at the cost of a decreased performance. Interpolation of the stray light properties is required to achieve high performance correction. For that, two methods are proposed and tested. The first interpolate the stray light in the field domain while the second applies a scaling operation based on a local symmetry assumption. Ultimately, the scaling method is selected and a stray light reduction by a factor of 58 is obtained at 2\u03c3 (129 at 1\u03c3) for an extended scene illumination.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14061354","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,10]],"date-time":"2022-03-10T20:19:10Z","timestamp":1646943550000},"page":"1354","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Stray Light Correction Algorithm for High Performance Optical Instruments: The Case of Metop-3MI"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Lionel","family":"Clermont","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Spatial de Li\u00e8ge, STAR Institute, Universit\u00e9 de L\u00e8ge, 4031 Li\u00e8ge, Belgium"}]},{"given":"C\u00e9line","family":"Michel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Spatial de Li\u00e8ge, STAR Institute, Universit\u00e9 de L\u00e8ge, 4031 Li\u00e8ge, Belgium"}]},{"given":"Yvan","family":"Stockman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Spatial de Li\u00e8ge, STAR Institute, Universit\u00e9 de L\u00e8ge, 4031 Li\u00e8ge, Belgium"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Fest, E. 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