Dynamic space-time dark level correction approach for lunar radiometric calibration of the Lunar Observation Imaging...

Lunar radiometric calibration is used to solve the problem of consistent radiometric calibration for multiple satellite platforms and remote sensors. However, the dark level fluctuates when observing the Moon with a short-wave infrared spectrometer, which seriously affects the accuracy of lunar radiation data. In this work, we propose a dynamic space-time dark level correction approach to address the fluctuation of the dark level. This method employs cold space signals in space and time dimensions to estimate the dark level for each frame individually and to reduce errors due to environmental variations. Experiments on lunar observations at multiple phase angles were conducted, and the dark level correction results demonstrate that our proposed method is effective even in the short-wave infrared, and is also superior to currently existing techniques. For a single-band (1700 nm) image of the full Moon, the mean background proportion of the proposed method is 1.00%, which is better than that of the static dark correction method (2.25%) and linear dark correction method (5.93%).