MERIS Case-2-Water Overview

The processor consists of three different algorithms which have been developed under different contracts.

Regional Algorithm

The Regional algorithm of this processor has been developed as a joint effort between GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, and Brockmann Consult, under contract of the European Space Agency ESA. Co-investigators in form of sub-contractors are the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS), BC, Canada.

General

The algorithms that relate the radiances observed by MERIS to first atmospherically corrected reflectances and then to water quality constituents were developed by Roland Doerffer (GKSS). The algorithms are described in:

You can download these documents from the Lakes Wiki at http://www.brockmann-consult.de/beam-wiki/display/LAKES/Home

If you publish results derived with the processors please use this reference:
Doerffer R. and H. Schiller (2008): MERIS Regional Coastal and Lake Case 2 Water Project - Atmospheric Correction ATBD,
GKSS Research Center 21502 Geesthacht Version 1.0 18. May 2008


If you have any questions or comments about the processor please contact the project Roland Doerffer (roland.doerffer@hzg.de) for the scientific part or Marco Peters (marco.peters@brockmann-consult.de)for the technical part.

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