Atmospheric Correction Over Coastal Turbid Waters of Bay of Bengal Using OCEANSAT-I Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) Data |
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| Authors: | Nivedita Sanwlani Prakash Chauhan Ranganath R Navalgund |
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| Institution: | (1) Space Applications Centre, (ISRO), Ahmedabad, 380015, India |
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| Abstract: | Space-borne ocean-colour remote sensor-detected radiance is heavily contaminated by solar radiation backscattered by the atmospheric
air molecules and aerosols. Hence, the first step in ocean-colour data processing is the removal of this atmospheric contribution
from the sensor-detected radiance to enable detection of optically active oceanic constituents e.g. chlorophyll-a, suspended sediment etc. In standard atmospheric correction procedure for OCEANSAT-1 Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) data, NIR
bands centered at 765 and 865 nm wavelengths were used for aerosol characterization. Due to high absorption by water molecules,
ocean surface in these two wavelengths acts as dark background, therefore, sensor detected radiance can be assumed to have
major contribution from atmospheric scattering. For coastal turbid waters this assumption of dark surface fails due to the
presence of highly scattering sediments which causes sufficient water-leaving radiance in NIR bands and lead to over-estimation
of aerosol radiance resulting in negative water leaving radiance for λ < 700 nm. In the present study, for the turbid coastal
waters in the northern Bay of Bengal, the concept of spatial homogeneity of aerosol and water leaving reflectance has been
applied to perform atmospheric correction of OCAEANSAT-1 OCM data. The results of the turbid water atmospheric correction
have also been validated using in-situ measured water-leaving radiance. Comparison of satellite derived water-leaving radiance for five coastal stations with in-situ measured radiance spectra, indicates an improvement over the standard atmospheric correction algorithm giving physically
realistic and positive values. Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) between the in-situ measured and satellite derived water leaving radiance for wavelengths 412 nm, 443 nm, 490 nm, 512 nm and 555 nm was found
to be 1.11, 0.718, 0.575, 0.611 and 0.651%, respectively, using standard atmospheric correction procedure. By the use of spatial
homogeneity concept, this error was reduced to 0.125, 0.173, 0.176, 0.225, and 0.290 and the correlation coefficient arrived
at 0.945, which is an improvement over the standard atmospheric correction procedure. |
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