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During the in-orbit test (IOT), vicarious radiometric calibration of KOMPSAT-3A was performed using the Second Simulation of a Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum (6S) radiative transfer model. The characteristics of radiometric tarps, the atmospheric optical depth from multi-filter rotating shadowband radiometer (MFRSR) measurements, and sun\u2013sensor\u2013geometry were carefully considered, in order to calculate the exact top of atmosphere (TOA) radiance received by KOMPSAT-3A MS bands. In addition, the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) behaviors of the radiometric tarps were measured in the laboratory with a two-dimensional hyperspectral gonioradiometer, to compensate for the geometry discrepancy between the satellite and the ASD FieldSpec\u00ae 3 spectroradiometer. The match-up datasets between the TOA radiance and the digital number (DN) from KOMPSAT-3A were used to determine DN-to-radiance conversion factors, based on linear least squares fitting for two field campaigns. The final results showed that the R2 values between the observed and simulated radiances for the blue, green, red, and near-infrared (NIR) bands, are greater than 0.998. An approximate error budget analysis for the vicarious calibration of KOMPSAT-3A showed an error of less than 6.8%. When applying the laboratory-based BRDF correction to the case of higher viewing zenith angle geometry, the gain ratio was improved, particularly for the blue (1.3%) and green (1.2%) bands, which exhibit high sensitivity to the BRDF of radiometric tarps during the backward-scattering phase. The calculated gain ratio between the first and second campaigns showed a less than 5% discrepancy, indicating that the determined radiometric characteristics of KOMPSAT-3A are reliable and useful to the user group for quantitative applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9020130","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,6]],"date-time":"2017-02-06T11:29:27Z","timestamp":1486380567000},"page":"130","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Initial Radiometric Characteristics of KOMPSAT-3A Multispectral Imagery Using the 6S Radiative Transfer Model, Well-Known Radiometric Tarps, and MFRSR Measurements"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Jong-Min","family":"Yeom","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cal\/Val &amp; Data Quality Control Team, National Satellite Operation &amp; Application Center, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Daejeon 34133, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jisoo","family":"Hwang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Photometry and Radiometry, Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jae-Heon","family":"Jung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cal\/Val &amp; Data Quality Control Team, National Satellite Operation &amp; Application Center, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Daejeon 34133, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0844-5245","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kwon-Ho","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Atmospheric &amp; Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung 25457, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4049-5779","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chang-Suk","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Meteorological Satellite Center of Korea Meteorological Administration, Satellite Analysis Division, Jincheon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do 27803, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Rees, W.G. 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