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Tide height

April 20th NIR band Highest tide in the NIR band: 1.2 m to Chart Datum	July 9th NIR band Lowest tide in the NIR band: 0.8 m to Chart Datum
May 22nd, June 7th and July 23rd : NIR shows decreasing tide height between these two extremes

4SM satellite derived bathymetry (SDB)

Depth results october 2013 using the full scene

Hastily
Last August, the first 5 scenes had been processed hastily.

For this new exercise,
I worked all 9 scenes: all calibration parameters have been estimated aknew and more rigorously.
Hopefully, all scenes have been processed in a consistent way.

No-gap
All results using the PAN solution, which yields a "no-gap" depth result.
That is: the NIR solution, the Red solution and the Green solution were disabled altogether.

Wavelengths

I consistently used the following:
- all bands at -or close to- mid-wavelength.
- except the RED band which consistently requires to be set at ~610 nm.
- except the PAN band which does not require any wavelength reference.
So as to ensure strict match of the BPL model with BPL pixels, which is absolutely required.

Calibration of the PAN band
Proper results depend on proper and very detailed calibration of the PAN solution.
To a degree that I did not suspect.
All this was done manually: I learned a lot, under operational pressure and time constraint.
After all those manual calibrations, I now have an idea for automatically and finely calibrating the PAN band.
But then it needs to be implemented...

Lw
In the course of this UAE exercise,
I think I have identified a more secure and practical way
of estimating the all-important water volume reflectance Lw.
I need a way to validate how I estimate water volume reflectance Lw=Lsw-La
this is all-important for very dark pixels.

Surrounding of Marawaah Island
The quality of the result very much depends on the specific area

The surrounding of Abu Dhabi city and the whole Khor Al Bazim quite surely have less clear waters: this is not accounted for.
Lousy deglinting can only result in lousy results.

I focused on your stated project: the surrounding of Marawaah Island.

COMPLEX

With all those industrial activities, oil riggs and terminals, boats and tankers everywhere, industrial smoke, and heavy load of aerosols, even clouds at times, this scene is daunting.
Add to it the electronic noise in the SWIR band, which transfers into other bands upon deglinting.
I'd like to know how one is supposed to achieve a formal atmospheric correction of such images.

The PAN solution procedure is still very new.
I keep discovering how to handle it practically.
But I predict it shall become VERY popular, with WV2 as with OLI,
to the extent that its calibration can be refined and hard-coded.

By adding new scenes to this sort of exercise,
and with your fine post-processing,
maybe we can work out a scene-wise commercial product

that eventually shall use pan-sharpened images (if that possibly works).
that you would promote for sale.
that would become a very usefull depth reference for processing higher resolution images like WV2 for detailed local AOIs.

One key to such project is strict co-registration: your call.

Smoothing?
Smothing or NotSmoothing, that is the question.
I had rather smooth, but it is your call.

Adding the Green solution or not?
It would extend the depth range,
but would exhibit gaps which might be severe locally, depending on the actual bottom signature.
As for enabling the Red solution, I think a well calibrated PAN solution is just as good.
This need to be tested though: your call, but mind the gaps.

BOA reflectance (0-1)

I am now equiped in 4SM to output BOA reflectances (range 0-1) for OLI images, thanks to USGS's webpage "Using the USGS Landsat 8 Product"
- is there anything similar for WV2?
Ra: I write out the adopted spectral path radiance Ra into reflectance (0-1): would want to compare with path radiance obtained by formal atmospheric correction processes.
Rw: I write out adopted spectral water volume BOA reflectance Rw (0-1): would like to compare with Hydrolight estimates (but Dekker stays put).
RM: I write out adopted BOA reflectance of the brightest shallow bottom RM: I should normalize the BOA water column corrected reflectancesto a refrence reflectance spectrum of -say- coral sand/mud.
see that RM, Rw and Ra are displayed in calibration diagram

marawaah20130420F_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN no smoothing
marawaah20130522F_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN no smoothing
marawaah20130607F_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN no smoothing, homogeneous atmosphere, excellent deglinting THIS POSSIBLY IS THE BEST IMAGE certainly the best calibration of the PAN solution, with the least compromise or "spying" on the nautical chart FinalZ = CoefZ*Z + HtideToDatum
marawaah20130623F_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN no smoothing
marawaah20130709F_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN no smoothing
marawaah20130725F_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN Smoothed CAUTION: swirls of turbid waters in the channel north of Marawaah island
marawaah20130810.................	can't get suitable glint regressions: no results
marawaah20130826_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN No smoothing; I see that this might be a problem: result is bumpy, and there are deep pixel artifacts, but you sure have your ways at cleaning/smoothing!
marawaah20130911_depth4.pix	Purple, Blue and Green against PAN No smoothing I have a problem of strict co-registration of the 2*2 sum-aggregated PAN channel: this produces deep pixel artifacts such as at pixel 2702/5030 in marawaah20130911