articleRemote Sensing of EnvironmentMar 13, 2019HYBRID OA

Adaptation of the dark spectrum fitting atmospheric correction for aquatic applications of the Landsat and Sentinel-2 archives

QVQuinten Vanhellemont

Institute of Natural Sciences

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Abstract

The dark spectrum fitting (DSF) atmospheric correction method for aquatic application of metre-scale resolution optical satellite imagery is adapted to Landsat and Sentinel-2 (L/S2), including an automated tiled processing of full scene imagery and an optional image based glint correction. The DSF uses multiple dark targets in the subscene to construct a “dark spectrum” which is used to estimate the atmospheric path reflectance (ρpath) according to the best fitting aerosol model. This method is fully automated and can be used for full mission archive processing, as demonstrated here for a study region in the North Sea. The new approach overcomes common issues with the SWIR based exponential extrapolation…

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  • Remote sensing
  • Atmospheric correction
  • Adaptation (eye)
  • Environmental science
  • Geology
  • Reflectivity
  • Physics
  • Optics
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Life below water
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