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Additional data were obtained using the Radiometric Calibration Test Site, which is a suite of instruments located at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. The results for the top-of-atmosphere spectral radiance show an average difference of \u22122.7, \u22120.8, 1.5, 2.0, 0.0, 3.6, 5.8, and 0.7% in OLI bands 1\u20138 as compared to an average of all of the ground-based measurements. The top-of-atmosphere spectral reflectance shows an average difference of 1.6, 1.3, 2.0, 1.9, 0.9, 2.1, 3.1, and 2.1% from the ground-based measurements. Except for OLI band 7, the spectral radiance results are generally within \u00b15% of the design specifications, and the reflectance results are generally within \u00b13% of the design specifications. The results from the data collected during the tandem Landsat 7 and 8 flight in March 2013 indicate that ETM+ and OLI agree to each other to within \u00b12% in similar bands in top-of-atmosphere spectral radiance, and to within \u00b14% in top-of-atmosphere spectral reflectance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70100600","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,7]],"date-time":"2015-01-07T12:35:46Z","timestamp":1420634146000},"page":"600-626","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":142,"title":["The Ground-Based Absolute Radiometric Calibration of Landsat 8 OLI"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Jeffrey","family":"Czapla-Myers","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing Group, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA"}]},{"given":"Joel","family":"McCorkel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Nikolaus","family":"Anderson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing Group, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA"}]},{"given":"Kurtis","family":"Thome","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Stuart","family":"Biggar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing Group, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA"}]},{"given":"Dennis","family":"Helder","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Office of Engineering Research, College of Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Aaron","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Office of Engineering Research, College of Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0836-4768","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Larry","family":"Leigh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Office of Engineering Research, College of Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA"}]},{"given":"Nischal","family":"Mishra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Office of Engineering Research, College of Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Reuter, D., Richardson, C., Irons, J., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Budinoff, J., Casto, G., Coltharp, C., Finneran, P., and Forsbacka, B. 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