Research Project
Full description The seafloor brightness map was developed primarily as an input parameter for a remote sensing Shallow Water Inversion Model (SWIM) to account for the impact of bottom reflectance effects on inherent optical property (IOP) retrievals. The map, in conjunction with spectral reflectance signatures of both "light" and "dark" classes, provides the user with an approximate spatially explicit bottom reflectance parameter that can be used to correct IOP retrievals for the effect of bottom reflectance contamination.