Analysis of the first ocean color products from POLDER 3 onboard PARASOL

François Steinmetz; Didier Ramon; Pierre-Yves Deschamps; Jean-Marc Nicolas

doi:10.1117/12.629878

20 October 2005 Analysis of the first ocean color products from POLDER 3 onboard PARASOL

François Steinmetz, Didier Ramon, Pierre-Yves Deschamps, Jean-Marc Nicolas

Proceedings Volume 5977, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, and Large Water Regions 2005; 59770P (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.629878
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2005, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

POLDER 3 is a multispectral and multidirectional imaging radiometer/polarimeter, the third instrument of the POLarization and Directionality of Earth Reflectances family. It is designed to collect global images of the earth/atmosphere reflectances with a wide field of view of 1600 km and a moderate spatial resolution of 6 km. It was developed and successfully launched onboard the PARASOL microsatellite by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (the French Space Agency) on December 18, 2004, and the first images were acquired on January 7, 2005. The nominal acquisition phase has started on march 10, 2005 after a successful flight commissioning phase. The specificity of this instrument is to measure polarized reflectances for three out of the 10 spectral channels from 443 to 1020 nm, from 16 viewing directions during a single satellite pass. The purpose of this paper is to present the preliminary ocean color scientific products: marine diffuse reflectances, amount and type of aerosols derived from the atmospheric correction scheme and concentration of chlorophyll pigments. The level 3 products will be compared to another ocean color instruments, MODIS.

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François Steinmetz, Didier Ramon, Pierre-Yves Deschamps, and Jean-Marc Nicolas "Analysis of the first ocean color products from POLDER 3 onboard PARASOL", Proc. SPIE 5977, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, and Large Water Regions 2005, 59770P (20 October 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.629878

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