Atmospheric correction using the ultraviolet wavelength for highly turbid waters

State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou, China

Xianqiang He, et al.

Principle of the UV-AC

In turbid waters, high SPM and CDOM dominate water’s optical properties.

Due to particle scattering, Lwn increases rapidly in the VIS and NIR. Meanwhile, strong absorption of detritus and CDOM reduce Lwn in the UV and shortwave of VIS.Changjiang River

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Autumn, 2003

Mississippi River Orinoco River.

Lwn at the VIS and NIR increases rapidly with the increase of water turbidity, but it increases very little at the UV.

Hypothesis: In highly turbid waters, Lwn at UV can be neglected compared with that at the VIS and even NIR, and we can use the UV band to estimate aerosol scattering radiance.

He et al., OE, 2012

Oo et al. (2008) found that water-leaving reflectance ρwn(412nm) is relatively low and stable in the Chesapeake region, and thus they used 412nm band to constrain the aerosol model selection for the SWIR-AC algorithm.

Oo et al., AO, 2008

In the Gironde Estuary in the southwest France, it was found that the remote sensing reflectance at 400 nm was quite smaller as compared to visible or even NIR

Gironde Estuary, located in southwest France.

Doxaran et al., AO, 2003

UV-AC algorithm

Step 1: Calculating the Rayleigh-scattering corrected reflectance

Total reflectance measured by sensor:

Step 2: Assuming ρw at UV band can be neglected, we get aerosol multiple-scattering reflectance at UV band with “(e)” means the estimated value instead of the actual value;Step 3: Estimating the aerosol scattering reflectance at the longer NIR band.

where

Step 4: Assuming the “white” aerosol scattering, then aerosol scattering reflectance at all bands is equal to

The key of the UV-AC algorithmThe critical is the rationality of the empirical estimation of

aerosol scattering reflectance at the longer NIR band.First, is always larger than the real value due to the

contribution of water-leaving radiance, though the water-leaving reflectance is small at the UV in turbid waters.

Second, is generally larger than the real value (He et al., OE, 2012).

The compensating effect between and is expected to get a reasonable estimation of aerosol scattering reflectance at longer NIR.

The “white” aerosol approximation is rationale for the coastal aerosol and maritime aerosol, which are the dominating aerosol types in the coastal regions.

Validation of the UV-AC (I: theoretical deduce)We have theoretically evidenced that the error of water-leaving

radiance (including the atmospheric diffuse transmittance) at the VIS retrieved by the UV-AC algorithm was generally larger than , and less than

(He et al., OE, 2012).

The average value of Lwn(UV) is about 0.5 mW/(cm2 μm sr). ⋅ ⋅Also, for a clear to moderately turbid atmosphere, La(UV) is generally less than 0.5 mW/(cm2 μm sr) for zenith viewing. ⋅ ⋅Therefore, for most cases, the retrieval error of the water-leaving radiance by the UV-AC algorithm is expected to be less than 1.0 mW/(cm2 μm sr).⋅ ⋅

We simulated the at nine bands (365, 412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670, 765 and 865 nm) according to

First, the water-leaving reflectance was estimated with the in situ measured Lwn for turbid waters with Lwn(555 )≥2.0.

Then, for each in situ Lwn, we simulated the aerosol scattering reflectance and atmospheric diffuse transmittance for different aerosol models, aerosol optical thickness and solar-satellite geometries. The 12 aerosol models in the SeaDAS were used. For each aerosol model and aerosol multiple-scattering reflectance at 865 nm and solar-satellite geometries, we calculated the aerosol single-scattering reflectance at 865 nm according to look-up tables from SeaDAS, and then the aerosol single-scattering reflectance at other eight bands were extrapolated from 865 nm. Finally, the multiple-scattering reflectances at all bands were calculated by the single-scattering reflectance using the look-up tables.

Validation of the UV-AC (II: simulation)

We applied UV-AC (365nm) based on 365nm to simulated data. Although UV-AC(365nm) slightly overestimated as a whole, the retrieved values

agreed quite well with in situ, especially at longer wavelengths. For most cases, UV-AC(365nm) can retrieve the water-leaving reflectance well (30.8%, 22.9%, 15.9%, 13.1%, 8.9%, 6.0%, 11.5% and 13.7% for 412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670, 765 and 865 nm).

Since past and current sensors have no UV band, and the shortest wavelength is 412 nm. We use same scheme as UV-AC(365nm) but take 412 nm as the reference band. Performance of UV-AC(412nm) is quite similar as the UV-AC(365nm).

UV-AC(365nm) UV-AC(412nm)

He et al., OE, 2012

Application of UV-AC(412nm) to Aqua/MODISLwn retrieved by Aqua/MODIS on 5 April 2003 using UV-AC(412nm)

4 in situ stations on 5 Apr. 2003 (stars);

Since Aqua/MODIS saturated in highly turbid coastal waters, there were no effective values in the coasts

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Application of UV-AC(412nm) to GOCI

He et al., RSE, 2013

27 June 2011

station A at 9:16 AM.

station A at 12:08 PM. station B at 3:21 PM.

Comparison of Lwn retrieved by UV-AC(412nm) and in situ value In general, UV-AC(412nm) -retrieved Lwn matches in situ values well in both

quantity and spectral, with average absolute relative errors of 25.0% (412 nm), 11.8% (443 nm), 9.9% (490 nm), 6.6% (555 nm), 13.9% (660 nm), 6.8% (680 nm) and 29.1% (745 nm)

He et al., RSE, 2013

SPM inversion from GOCI using the UV-AC(412nm) retrieved Lwn in the high turbid Hangzhou Bay

Comparing with Buoy dataSPM on 5 Apr. 2011

He et al., RSE, 2013

My interesting (or contribution) for the participation to this WG

Validate the UV-AC algorithm with the same data sets used by all other turbid water AC algorithms (including the satellite, RT simulated and in situ data).

Improve and release the code of the UV-AC algorithm for public use.

Generate the RT simulated dataset for validation based on the PCOART (Polarized Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Radiative Transfer model) (He et al., 2007; He et al. 2010)

PCOARTPCOART is a vector radiative transfer model of the

coupled ocean-atmosphere system with rough sea-surface, based on the matrix-operator method (or adding-doubling).

PCOART has been validated by the RT problem in the Rayleigh atmosphere, underwater, coupled ocean-atmosphere system. In addition, the radiance at the top-of-atmosphere simulated by the PCOART reproduce the satellite observation.

Comparison of the Rayleigh scattering Stokes vector at TOA simulated by PCOART and calculated by the Look-up table of Aqua/MODIS

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He et al., 2010

The underwater radiance simulated by PCOART meet the requirement of the underwater RT model by Mobley et al.

(1993)Underwater RT problem 1: an unrealistically simple problem

Underwater RT problem 2: a base problem using realistic inherent optical properties for the ocean

He et al., 2007

Underwater RT problem 3: the base problem but with stratified water

Underwater RT problem 4: the base problem but with a finite depth bottom

Underwater RT problem 5: the base problem but with a rough sea surface

He et al., JQSRT, 2010

The radiance in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system simulated by PCOART consists with the scalar RT model COART

COART is the scalar radiative transfer code using the discrete ordinates method for rough sea surface,based on the DISTORT.

Wind speed of 5m/s

Top-of-atmosphere

Just above sea surface

5m depth underwater

He et al., JQSRT, 2010

PCOART simulation reproduces the linear polarization reflectance measured by POLDER

POLDER measured linear polarization reflectance at 443nm on 10 July 2003

PCOART simulated

He et al., JQSRT, 2010

Some concerns about the goal (or output) of this WG

Systematically understand the advantage, limitation, and application condition of the proposed turbid water AC algorithms.

Establish the benchmark for the assessment of the turbid water AC algorithms.

Improve and release the codes for the easy use by the community.

Give suggestions for the future improvement of the turbid water AC algorithm, and for the design of future ocean color sensors.

Thanks for your attention!State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment

Dynamics, SIO/SOA, China