Performance of the Landsat 8 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance Product for Inland Waters

Ogashawara, Igor; Jechow, Andreas; Kiel, Christine; Kohnert, Katrin; Berger, Stella A.; Wollrab, Sabine

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Performance of the Landsat 8 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance Product for Inland Waters

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Department of Experimental Limnology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Zur Alten Fischerhuette 2, 16775 Stechlin, Germany

Department of Ecohydrology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany

Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

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Remote Sens. 2020, 12(15), 2410; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152410

Received: 15 June 2020 / Revised: 23 July 2020 / Accepted: 25 July 2020 / Published: 27 July 2020

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Communications)

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Recently, the United States Geological Service (USGS) released a new provisional product which estimates aquatic reflectance from Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI), called Landsat 8 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance (L8PAR). However, as indicated in the product guide, the use of this product for inland waters needs further verification and improvements. The goal of this study was to determine how the novel L8PAR product performs for different small turbid and eutrophic lakes in Northern Germany compared to in situ measurements of above water remote sensing reflectance (R_rs). For several recent scenes during our monitoring, the L8PAR product failed to produce full data for the lakes of our interest. For the best scene with in situ spectra, L8PAR was not able to retrieve any information for band 1 and not all information for bands 2, 3 and 4. The pixels with valid values for reflectance showed a weak relationship for band 2 (R² of 0.24) and a medium relationship for bands 3 and 4 (R² of 0.68 and 0.72, respectively). Compared to other atmospheric correction routines (ACOLITE, C2RCC, C2X, iCOR and L8SR), L8PAR was the only product which was not able to retrieve R_rs for all match up samples. This work provides an evaluation of the L8PAR product for inland waterbodies. Although more analysis and validation need to be conducted, our study suggests that the L8PAR product cannot be used for small inland lakes in its current state and has to be used with care for inland waters in general. View Full-Text

Keywords: atmospheric correction; remote sensing reflectance; inland aquatic systems; bio-optical modeling

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Ogashawara, I.; Jechow, A.; Kiel, C.; Kohnert, K.; Berger, S.A.; Wollrab, S. Performance of the Landsat 8 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance Product for Inland Waters. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 2410. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152410

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Ogashawara I, Jechow A, Kiel C, Kohnert K, Berger SA, Wollrab S. Performance of the Landsat 8 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance Product for Inland Waters. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12(15):2410. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152410

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Ogashawara, Igor, Andreas Jechow, Christine Kiel, Katrin Kohnert, Stella A. Berger, and Sabine Wollrab. 2020. "Performance of the Landsat 8 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance Product for Inland Waters" Remote Sensing 12, no. 15: 2410. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152410

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