ACOLITE 20140722.0
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:16 pm
ACOLITE version 20140722.0 was released and distributed at the IOCCG Summer School in Villefranche-sur-Mer.
Features include:
- Generation of Top of Atmosphere (TOA) and Rayleigh corrected (RCO) RGB images.
- Atmospheric correction and L2 map and NetCDF generation.
- Processing of a full tile or cropped region.
L2 products include marine reflectance (rhow = pi x Rrs) in the visible and NIR wavebands (443, 483, 561, 655 and 865 nm), and a multiple scattering aerosol reflectance (rhoam) in the NIR band. The default atmospheric correction is Vanhellemont and Ruddick (in prep.), but a switch is included for using Vanhellemont and Ruddick (2014).
Advanced settings include:
- a pressure correction for the Rayleigh correction (for example for high altitude lakes)
- upper limits for the (linear) reflectance scaling in the RGB generation, can be modified if your RGB images come out too dark or bright
- adding geolocation to RGB and L2 maps (only for cropped data)
- switching to the VR2014 atmospheric correction using the red and NIR band
References
Vanhellemont Q. & Ruddick K. (2014). Turbid wakes associated with offshore wind turbines observed with Landsat 8. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. Volume 145, pp. 105–115. Open Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.009
Vanhellemont Q. & Ruddick K. (2015). Advantages of high quality SWIR bands for ocean colour processing: Examples from Landsat-8 Remote Sensing of Environment. Open Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.007
Features include:
- Generation of Top of Atmosphere (TOA) and Rayleigh corrected (RCO) RGB images.
- Atmospheric correction and L2 map and NetCDF generation.
- Processing of a full tile or cropped region.
L2 products include marine reflectance (rhow = pi x Rrs) in the visible and NIR wavebands (443, 483, 561, 655 and 865 nm), and a multiple scattering aerosol reflectance (rhoam) in the NIR band. The default atmospheric correction is Vanhellemont and Ruddick (in prep.), but a switch is included for using Vanhellemont and Ruddick (2014).
Advanced settings include:
- a pressure correction for the Rayleigh correction (for example for high altitude lakes)
- upper limits for the (linear) reflectance scaling in the RGB generation, can be modified if your RGB images come out too dark or bright
- adding geolocation to RGB and L2 maps (only for cropped data)
- switching to the VR2014 atmospheric correction using the red and NIR band
References
Vanhellemont Q. & Ruddick K. (2014). Turbid wakes associated with offshore wind turbines observed with Landsat 8. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. Volume 145, pp. 105–115. Open Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.009
Vanhellemont Q. & Ruddick K. (2015). Advantages of high quality SWIR bands for ocean colour processing: Examples from Landsat-8 Remote Sensing of Environment. Open Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.007