ACOLITE has been rewritten in Python, and the previous IDL version will no longer be updated. The default atmospheric correction has been updated to a more robust algorithm (detailed in Vanhellemont and Ruddick, submitted). An extensive validation of the algorithm applied to Landsat and Sentinel-2 is in preparation.
Download the latest version here. Further details in the ACOLITE manual.
Updates since 20170718.0:
- Implementation is now in Python (3.6)
- New aerosol correction (DSF) with new lookup tables for path reflectance resampled to each of the supported sensors (L5/TM, L7/ETM, L8/OLI, S2A/MSI, S2B/MSI)
- The new spectral response function of Sentinel-2A is now used
- A more robust tile merging option (including Landsat tiles) has been added
Vanhellemont, Q., Ruddick, K., submitted. Atmospheric correction of metre-scale optical satellite data for inland and coastal water applications.
Remote Sensing of Environment.
Vanhellemont, Q., Ruddick, K., in preparation. The dark spectrum fitting atmospheric correction for Landsat and Sentinel-2.