Operational Derivation of Water Quality, Water Depth and Sea Bottom Type from Remote Sensing Satellite Data

An automated procedure to operationally derive water parameters from high spatial resolution coastal images is presented. The choice of imagery is Planet's 3 m resolution images with a potential daily revisit time. A semi-analytical model is adopted and modified using a 2-step process to retrieve the water parameters from Planet's 4-band images. Initial validation between the retrieved water depth and nautical chart depths show good results with on-going field measurements for validation of the retrieved water optical properties.

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