Advances in Marine Optics Technology
Copernicus Sentinel-3 missions, including the ongoing Sentinel-3A and -3B and the future Sentinel-3C and -3D, offer an unprecedented opportunity for long-term ocean colour observations to support global environment and climate investigations. Nevertheless, any ocean colour mission incorporates calibration and validation activities largely depending on highly accurate in situ reference measurements relying on state-of-the-art measurement methods and instrumentation.
Since the start of the operational ocean colour missions in 1997, the Joint Research Center (JRC) sustained the required calibration and validation activities by developing unique expertise and setting up specific measurement programs and infrastructures. This expertise, measurement programs and infrastructures, currently support the Copernicus ocean colour calibration and validation tasks through the delivery and exploitation of in situ reference data essential for the assessment of satellite derived marine data products.
This Technical Report aims at providing details on recent technological developments carried out at the JRC Marine Optical Laboratory (MarLab) to satisfy requirements for the standardization of in situ measurements, radiometric characterization of in situ instruments, and laboratory analysis of water samples, all targeting the general objective to increase accuracy of in situ reference data supporting the validation of satellite ocean color products.
ZIBORDI Giuseppe;
SCIUTO Pietro;
2022-03-01
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC128393
978-92-76-47719-8 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30996 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30996-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128393,
10.2760/387681 (online),
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