Bathymetry and water column correction
LANDSAT 8 OLIP 
at SanLorenzoChannel, Baja california
Image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
7671*7841 30 m pixel size, UTM zone 12
 
Using the Panchromatic band for water column correction
to derive water depth and spectral bottom signature:

Landsat 8 OLIP bandset used for this work
Purple=1, Blue=2, Green=3, PAN=4, Red=5, NIR=6 and SWIR1=7

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Applying ZDTM

Applying ZDTM
see legend for image SAM
As I have an estimate of water depth through the existing (and crude) DTM,
I can use it in the inversion of the RTE.
This means that there is no Soil Line assumption any more:
the result only depends on
the water optical properties
and the measured spectral radiances.
 
To me, this result is astounding, as it means that
  • FIRST, produce a combined depth image using all scenes available over the study site
    • very detailed at a 15 m GSD and free of weird artifacts
    • without any smoothing thanks to R_pan-sharpening
  • THEN use this detailed combined depth image as a DTM as above,
    • and get a very detailed time series of SAM result like this one above
    • for each of the scenes available
    • at a 15 m GSD without any smoothing
    • free of artifacts caused by bad/crude depths
    • but still suffering from horizontal variations of water optical properties

TCC_BOA_WCC
NOTE the greenneness flowing through the channel


 



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