Photometric characterization of Lucideon and Avian Technologies color standards including application for calibration of the Mastcam-Z instrument on the Mars 2020 rover
Abstract
Several commercially available color standards exist, generated by a variety of manufacturers including LabSphere, Lucideon, and Avian Technologies. Previous work has characterized the photometric properties of LabSphere Spectralon targets. Here, we measure the visible and shortwave infrared (VSWIR; 0.4 to 2.5 μm) reflectance at multiple angles and determine the photometric properties of materials manufactured by Lucideon and Avian Technologies for potential use as calibration target materials for the Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z instrument. The Lucideon black, gray 33, green, and cyan samples are found to be significantly forward scattering. The yellow, red, and gray 70 samples are found to be weakly forward scattering. The Avian Technologies AluWhite98 sample was found to be weakly backward scattering. We characterize the absorptions observable and note the occurrence of wavelength-dependent photometric properties. The reflectance and photometric data collected and released here enable the use of these color standards for calibration of data from Mastcam-Z and other Mars-2020 rover instruments as well as provide key information for many other imaging and spectroscopy applications that require the calibration of data from multiple lighting or viewing geometries.
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© 2019 The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. Paper 181146 received Aug. 8, 2018; accepted for publication Jan. 15, 2019; published online Feb. 12, 2019. Dataset and additional figures are available at https://doi.org/10.22002/D1.1154. JB thanks Dr. Ed Cloutis for early discussions related to this study and Dr. Will Grundy for assistance in development and implementation of attempted photometric models. MBM gratefully acknowledges supporting grant CF16-0981, which covered salary for KK but also purchase of the calibration target references used in this study. This work was funded by a Mars-2020, Mastcam-Z grant to BLE, and a NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship #NNX15AQ95H partially supported JB.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20190807-123940924
- Carlsberg Foundation
- CF16-0981
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
- NNX15AQ95H
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2019-08-07Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Astronomy Department, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences