An assessment of Landsat-8 atmospheric correction schemes and remote sensing reflectance products in coral reefs and coastal turbid waters

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 215, Issue , 2018, Pages 18-32

  Wei, Jianwei ^a   Lee, Zhongping ^a   Garcia, Rodrigo ^a   Zoffoli, Laura ^a   Armstrong, Roy A ^b   Shang, Zhehai ^a   Sheldon, Patrick ^a   Chen, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; Coral reefs; Landsat 8; Ocean color; Remote sensing reflectance

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; NASA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; QUALITY CONTROL; REEFS; REFLECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION SCHEMES; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; CLOUD SHADOWS; CORAL REEF; LANDSAT; LANDSAT-8; OCEAN COLOR; OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; TURBID WATER;

LANDSAT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; BATHYMETRY; COASTAL WATER; CORAL REEF; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LANDSAT; OCEAN COLOR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TURBIDITY; WATER COLUMN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 85047950169     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.033     Document Type: Article

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