SYN Level-2 Processing - Aerosol and Surface Reflectance Retrieval
SYN Level-2 processing employs an advanced surface reflectance and aerosol retrieval algorithm, which makes use of the combined information from the OLCI and SLSTR instruments on Sentinel-3 to provide synergistic data for land surface and vegetation analysis. The processing aims to produce self-consistent product packages with atmosphere-corrected surface reflectance for OLCI and SLSTR channels and corresponding information on aerosol properties. The algorithm takes as input TOA reflectance data for the six solar-reflective SLSTR channels at both nadir and oblique views (resulting in a total of 12 channels), and the 18 OLCI bands at all non-absorbing channels, avoiding O2 absorption bands 14 and 15, and water vapour band 20. The output is aerosol optical thickness at a reference waveband of 550 nm, an estimate of aerosol model and Angstrom coefficient, and atmosphere-corrected surface reflectance for all input channels. The problem of surface reflectance and aerosol retrieval can essentially be formulated as one of multivariate optimisation subject to multiple constraints.
SYN atmospheric correction consists of the following steps (Note that collocation of TOA radiance measurements onto the grid of the OLCI reference channel and the pixel classification (cloud, snow, land, etc.) is performed in SYN Level-1 processing):
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