Supported ENVISAT Products

               INDEX          BANDS          PRODUCTS     

MERIS Level 2 Flag Codings

  Flags of ENVISAT MER_RR__2P_flags Products

Identifier Bit Index Description
"LAND" 23 Land product available
"CLOUD" 22 Cloud product available
"WATER" 21 Water product available
"PCD_1_13" 20 Uncertain normalized surface reflectance
"PCD_14" 19 Uncertain total water vapour content
"PCD_15" 18 Uncertain algal pigment index 1 or cloud top pressure or top of atmosphere vegetation index
"PCD_16" 17 Uncertain yellow substance and total suspended matter or rectified reflectances
"PCD_17" 16 Uncertain algal pigment index 2 or bottom of atmosphere vegetation index
"PCD_18" 15 Uncertain PAR or cloud albedo or land surface pressure
"PCD_19" 14 Uncertain aerosol type and optical thickness or cloud optical thickness
"COASTLINE" 13 Coastline pixel
"COSMETIC" 12 Cosmetic pixel (flag from level-1B)
"SUSPECT" 11 Suspect pixel (flag from level-1B)
"OOADB" 10 Aerosol model is out of aerosol model database
"ABSOA_DUST" 9 Dust-like absorbing aerosol selected for atmosphere correction
"CASE2_S" 8 Turbid (sediment dominated Case 2) water
"CASE2_ANOM" 7 & 21 Anomalous scattering water
"TOAVI_BRIGHT" 7 & 23 Bright pixel flagged by MGVI processing
"CASE2_Y" 6 & 21 Yellow substance loaded water
"TOAVI_BAD" 6 & 23 Bad pixel flagged by MGVI processing
"ICE_HAZE" 5 & 21 Ice or high aerosol load pixel
"TOAVI_CSI" 5 & 23 Cloud, Snow or Ice over land pixel acc. to MGVI processing
"MEDIUM_GLINT" 4 & 21 Corrected for glint (water)
"TOAVI_WS" 4 & 23 Water/Shadow pixel acc. to MGVI processing (land pixels)
"LARS_ON" 3 & 23 Land aerosol remote sensing turned on
"BPAC_ON" 3 & 21 Bright Pixels Atm. Correction activated (water)
"HIGH_GLINT" 2 & 21 High (uncorrected) glint (water)
"TOAVI_INVAL_REC" 2 & 23 Invalid rectification (land pixels)
"LOW_SUN" 1 Sun low above horizon (or conversely high Sun zenith angle)
"LOW_PRESSURE" 0 Computed pressure lower than ECMWF one
"WHITE_SCATTERER" 0 & 21 Presense of white scatterer in water