OLCI 709 nm band

[jstum]

Hello,

I'm processing OLCI/Sentinel-3A with SeaDAS 7.5

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, and I don't understand why the surface reflectance (rhos) at 709 nm is always depleted as compared to the two nearby wavelengths (681 and 754). I speak about ocean spectrum, far from sunglint or clouds, with no vicarious gain applied. See enclosed png file. I expected a 709 nm rhos value approximately given by a linear interpolation between 681 and 754 rhos values. Is there some correction missing in Seadas for this particular wavelength ?

Thanks

Jacques

[OB.DAAC-EDL - SeanBailey]

Vicarious calibration....or rather the lack thereof. Once properly calibrated, the result is more like what you would expect:

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The above was generated from a scene using the following gains:
gain=[0.9795,0.9953,0.9796,0.9675,0.9697,0.9695,0.9750,0.9750,0.9744,0.9788,1.0060,0.9834,1.0,1.0,1.0755,0.9908,1.0,1.0174,1.0,1.0,1.0]

Keep in mind these are not likely to be the set of gains we apply when we finally get around to distributing L2 data...but they're probably close.

Sean

[jstum]

Thanks Sean. Is there some internal report about the method used to derive these coefficients ?

[jstum]

OK, I probably got the answer in viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1273&sid=257aa1fe29 ... 3&start=10

[OB.DAAC-EDL - SeanBailey]

Yes, that would be the answer
Sean