This Paper describe that in flight radiometric calibration for thermal channels of FY 1C meteorological satellite sensors using Qinghai lake

water surface radiometric calibration site. The radiance of water surface measured by CE312

and then performed atmosphere correction including gas absorption and path radiance which computed by radiative transfer code MODTRAN37

predict the radiance in the satellite sensor entrance pupil. At the same time the spectral response of Satellite sensor and that of ground based sensor are coupled. At last the apparent radiance of sensor spectral channels are compared to the digital count of satellite’s output to give the calibration coefficient. The result show the difference between in flight and on board calibration is about 5%

equivalent to a brightness temperature of 3 K.