4SM Landsat 8 OLIP at Whitsunday Island, GBR, Australia

Bathymetry and water column correction
LANDSAT 8 OLIP
at Whitsunday Island, GBR, Australia
7711*7830, 30 m pixel size, UTM zone 55
scene LC80930742013178LGN01, June 27th 2013. Image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
Work done november 2013

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

This is typically an image that is unsuitable for 4SM shallow water work

The data
Seven bands are used: Purple, Blue, Green, PAN, Red, NIR and SWIR1

SWIR1	TCC Landsat OLI exhibits excellent radiometric quality
But: see how system noise is transferred from the NIR band into other bands upon deglinting How sad! ====>>>>

Deglinting

Glint regression based on SWIR1 band SWIR1 is quite convenient for deglinting	Glint regression based on NIR band
Deglinted TCC The wildfire smoke is not removed by the deglinting process Note the swirling plumes of turbid waters flowing through the Great Barrier reefs This is typically an image that is unsuitable for 4SM shallow water work. Although limited (and possibly usefull) results shall be obtained by raising the operational thresholds at very high values.	Deglinting along Profile Red This scene has hardly any glint Apart from the wildfire smoke at 30 km, almost all variations are caused by swirling water trubidity