Supplementary dataset to the publication by Hieronymi et al.: "Ocean color atmospheric correction methods in view of usability for different optical water types", Frontiers in Marine Science (under review, submitted 22 Dec 2022)

The dataset is an annex to the publication (under review, submitted 22 Dec 2022):

Martin Hieronymi, Shun Bi, Dagmar Müller, Eike M Schütt, Daniel Behr, Carsten Brockmann, Carole Lebreton, François Steinmetz, Kerstin Stelzer and Quinten Vanhellemont: "Ocean color atmospheric correction methods in view of usability for different optical water types", Frontiers in Marine Science.

The data were created to compare the results of different atmospheric correction methods for ocean (water) color imagery. The dataset includes ten modified ESA/EUMETSAT Copernicus Sentinel-3 OLCI satellite scenes from optically diverse sea areas worldwide. The NetCDF files are optimized for visualization in the ESA Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) and especially the Spectrum View. The data include original OLCI Level-1B top-of-atmosphere radiances recorded by the sensor and the results from five different atmospheric correction methods, i.e., spectral remote-sensing reflectance at 16 OLCI bands. The atmospheric correction methods compared are

1. IPF (Collection 3, the standard method),

2. C2RCC (v1.7 including IPF gains; Brockmann et al. [2016]),

3. A4O (v0.23 (2022-01-19); a novel method by Hieronymi et al.),

4. POLYMER (v4.14 (2021-12-17); Steinmetz et al. [2011]), and

5. ACOLITE-DSF (v2022-10-25.0; Vanhellemont and Ruddick [2021]).

The original flags supplied in each case are also provided.