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Shutler, JD, Land, PE, Smyth, TJ, Groom, SB (2007). Extending the MODIS 1 km ocean colour atmospheric correction to the MODIS 500 m bands and 500 m chlorophyll-a estimation towards coastal and estuarine monitoring. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 107(4), 521-532.

Abstract
National and regional obligations to control and maintain water quality have led to an increase in coastal and estuarine monitoring. A potentially valuable tool is high temporal and spatial resolution satellite ocean colour data. NASA's MODIS-Terra and -Aqua can capture data at both 250 in and 500 in spatial resolutions and the existence of two sensors provides the possibility for multiple daily passes over a scene. However, no robust atmospheric correction method currently exists for these data, rendering them unusable for quantitative monitoring applications. Therefore, this paper presents an automatic and dynamic atmospheric correction approach allowing the determination of ocean colour. The algorithm is based around the standard MODIS 1 km atmospheric correction, includes cloud masking and is applicable to all of the visible 500 m bands. Comparison of the 500 m ocean colour data with the standard 1 km data shows good agreement and these results are further supported by in situ data comparisons. In addition, a novel method to produce 500 m chlorophyll-a estimates is presented. Comparisons of the 500 M estimates with the standard MODIS OC3M algorithm and to in situ data from a near-coast validation site are given. Crown Copyright (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

DOI:
10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.004

ISSN:
0034-4257

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