Derivation of atmospheric correction procedures for LANDSAT MSS with particular reference to urban data

Abstract

The complexities and detail of urban scenes make it imperative that atmospheric effects are removed from satellite remotely sensed data prior to analysis. A study of atmospheric theory allows a simplified procedure to be developed for correction of multitemporal LANDSAT MSS scenes. Examples in the visible and near infrared, from a summer and winter scene, illustrate how disparate count values can be brought to good agreement as percentage reflectance.