The Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative: I. A methodology for assessing atmospheric correction processors based on in-situ measurements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 242-256

  Müller, Dagmar ^a   Krasemann, Hajo ^a   Brewin, Robert J W ^b   Brockmann, Carsten ^c   Deschamps, Pierre Yves ^d   Doerffer, Roland ^a   Fomferra, Norman ^c   Franz, Bryan A ^e   Grant, Mike G ^b   Groom, Steve B ^b   Mélin, Frédéric ^f   Platt, Trevor ^b   Regner, Peter ^g   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^b   Steinmetz, François ^d   Swinton, John ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c GITZ   (Germany)

^d HYGEOS ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^f JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithm comparison; Atmospheric correction; Boot strap; CCI; Climate change; In situ comparison; OC CCI; Ocean colour; Spectral comparison

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM COMPARISON; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; BOOT STRAP; CCI; OC-CCI; OCEAN-COLOUR; SPECTRAL COMPARISON;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84929061742     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.026     Document Type: Article

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