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N°Spécial De Revue/Special Issue Remote Sensing Année : 2019

Error Budget in the Validation of Radiometric Products Derived from OLCI around the China Sea from Open Ocean to Coastal Waters Compared with MODIS and VIIRS

Jun Li
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Jianhua Zhu
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Bing Han
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Tongji Li
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Anan Yang
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Kai Guo
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Di Jia
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Résumé

The accuracy of remote-sensing reflectance (Rrs) estimated from ocean color imagery through the atmospheric correction step is essential in conducting quantitative estimates of the inherent optical properties and biogeochemical parameters of seawater. Therefore, finding the main source of error is the first step toward improving the accuracy of Rrs. However, the classic validation exercises provide only the total error of the retrieved Rrs. They do not reveal the error sources. Moreover, how to effectively improve this satellite algorithm remains unknown. To better understand and improve various aspects of the satellite atmospheric correction algorithm, the error budget in the validation is required. Here, to find the primary error source from the OLCI Rrs, we evaluated the OLCI Rrs product with in-situ data around the China Sea from open ocean to coastal waters and compared them with the MODIS-AQUA and VIIRS products. The results show that the performances of OLCI are comparable to those MODIS-AQUA. The average percentage difference (APD) in Rrs is lowest at 490 nm (18%), and highest at 754 nm (79%). A more detailed analysis reveals that open ocean and coastal waters show opposite results: compared to coastal waters the satellite Rrs in open seas are higher than the in-situ measured values. An error budget for the three satellite-derived Rrs products is presented, showing that the primary error source in the China Sea was the aerosol estimation and the error on the Rayleigh-corrected radiance for OLCI, as well as for MODIS and VIIRS. This work suggests that to improve the accuracy of Sentinel-3A in the coastal waters of China, the accuracy of aerosol estimation in atmospheric correction must be improved.
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hal-04254911 , version 1 (23-10-2023)

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Jun Li, Jianhua Zhu, Bing Han, Tongji Li, Anan Yang, et al.. Error Budget in the Validation of Radiometric Products Derived from OLCI around the China Sea from Open Ocean to Coastal Waters Compared with MODIS and VIIRS. Remote Sensing, 11 (20), pp.2400, 2019, Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Underlying Surface Using OLCI and SLSTR on Board Sentinel-3: Calibration, Algorithms, Geophysical Products and Validation, ⟨10.3390/rs11202400⟩. ⟨hal-04254911⟩
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