Marine Science Faculty Publications
Atmospheric Correction of Seawifs Imagery: Assessment of the Use of Alternative Bands
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.39.003573
Abstract
Spatial inhomogeneity, or speckling, frequently occurs in Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (Sea-WiFS) data products such as water-leaving radiance and chlorophyll concentration. We have found that this effect may be caused by high-altitude aerosols or thin cirrus clouds or even by digitization errors. For the scenes evaluated, whitecaps were ruled out as a likely cause of these errors. We tried to avoid using the 765-nm band, which is affected by O2 absorption and is more sensitive to digitization errors, by instead using the 670-nm band in the atmospheric correction and found that speckling for either cloud-free areas or cloud-adjacent areas was significantly reduced.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Applied Optics, v. 39, issue 21, p. 3573-3581
Scholar Commons Citation
Hu, C.; Carder, Kendall L.; and Muller-Karger, Frank E., "Atmospheric Correction of Seawifs Imagery: Assessment of the Use of Alternative Bands" (2000). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 1171.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1171
