Abstract: Hawkeye is an ocean color instrument designed, manufactured and characterized at Cloud land Instruments, CA. It is a push broom instrument that has 8spectral bands similar to SeaWiFS and a spatial resolution of 120 m. Each spectral band has 1800 detectors (pixels) and all 14,000 detectors (pixels) need to be calibrated independently. This paper describes the preliminary design of on-orbit calibration method to correct for the instrument response’s temperature sensitivity,scan angle dependency…