Marine Science Faculty Publications
On the Interplay Between Ocean Color Data Quality and Data Quantity: Impacts of Quality Control Flags
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2020
Keywords
Oceans, Image color analysis, Data integrity, Quality control, Sun, Sea measurements, NASA
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2936220
Abstract
Nearly all calibration/validation activities for the satellite ocean color missions have focused on data quality to produce data products of the highest quality (i.e., science quality) for climate-related research. Little attention, however, has been paid to data quantity, particularly on how data quality control during data processing impacts downstream data quality and data quantity. In this letter, we attempt to fill this knowledge gap using measurements from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP). For this sensor, the same level-1B data are processed independently using different quality control methods by NASA and NOAA, respectively, allowing for an in-depth evaluation of the interplay between data quantity and quality. The results indicate that the methods to identify stray light and sun glint are the two primary quality control procedures affecting data quantity, where the criteria for flagging pixels “contaminated” by stray light and sun glint may be relaxed in the NASA ocean color data processing to increase data quantity without compromising data quality.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, v. 17, issue 5, p. 745-749
Scholar Commons Citation
Hu, Chuanmin; Barnes, Brian B.; Feng, Lian; Wang, Menghua; and Jiang, Lide, "On the Interplay Between Ocean Color Data Quality and Data Quantity: Impacts of Quality Control Flags" (2020). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 2009.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/2009
