The Landsat series has marked the history of Earth observation by performing the longest continuous imaging program from space. The recent Landsat-9 carrying Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) captures a higher dynamic range than sensors aboard Landsat-8 or Sentinel-2 (14-bit vs. 12-bit) that can potentially push forward the frontiers of aquatic remote sensing. This potential stems from the enhanced radiometric resolution of OLI-2, providing higher sensitivity over water bodies that are usually low-reflective. This study performs an initial assessment on retrieving water quality parameters from Landsat-9 imagery based on both physics-based and machine learning modeling. The concentration of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) and total suspended matter (TSM) are retrieved based on physics-based inversion in four Italian lakes encompassing oligo to eutrophic conditions. A neural network-based regression model is also employed to derive Chl-a concentration in San Francisco Bay. We perform a consistency analysis between the constituents derived from Landsat-9 and near-simultaneous Sentinel-2 imagery. The Chl-a and TSM retrievals are validated using in situ matchups. The results indicate relatively high consistency among the water quality products derived from Landsat-9 and Sentinel-2. However, the Landsat-9 constituent maps show less grainy noise, and the matchup validation indicates relatively higher accuracies obtained from Landsat-9 (e.g., TSM R2 of 0.89) compared to Sentinel-2 (R2 = 0.71). The improved constituent retrieval from Landsat-9 can be attributed to the higher signal-to-noise (SNR) enabled by the wider dynamic range of OLI-2. We performed an image-based SNR estimation that confirms this assumption.

Water Quality Retrieval from Landsat-9 (OLI-2) Imagery and Comparison to Sentinel-2 / Niroumand-Jadidi, M.; Bovolo, F.; Bresciani, M.; Gege, P.; Giardino, C.. - In: REMOTE SENSING. - ISSN 2072-4292. - 14:18(2022), pp. 459601-459618. [10.3390/rs14184596]

Water Quality Retrieval from Landsat-9 (OLI-2) Imagery and Comparison to Sentinel-2

Bovolo F.;
2022-01-01

Abstract

The Landsat series has marked the history of Earth observation by performing the longest continuous imaging program from space. The recent Landsat-9 carrying Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) captures a higher dynamic range than sensors aboard Landsat-8 or Sentinel-2 (14-bit vs. 12-bit) that can potentially push forward the frontiers of aquatic remote sensing. This potential stems from the enhanced radiometric resolution of OLI-2, providing higher sensitivity over water bodies that are usually low-reflective. This study performs an initial assessment on retrieving water quality parameters from Landsat-9 imagery based on both physics-based and machine learning modeling. The concentration of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) and total suspended matter (TSM) are retrieved based on physics-based inversion in four Italian lakes encompassing oligo to eutrophic conditions. A neural network-based regression model is also employed to derive Chl-a concentration in San Francisco Bay. We perform a consistency analysis between the constituents derived from Landsat-9 and near-simultaneous Sentinel-2 imagery. The Chl-a and TSM retrievals are validated using in situ matchups. The results indicate relatively high consistency among the water quality products derived from Landsat-9 and Sentinel-2. However, the Landsat-9 constituent maps show less grainy noise, and the matchup validation indicates relatively higher accuracies obtained from Landsat-9 (e.g., TSM R2 of 0.89) compared to Sentinel-2 (R2 = 0.71). The improved constituent retrieval from Landsat-9 can be attributed to the higher signal-to-noise (SNR) enabled by the wider dynamic range of OLI-2. We performed an image-based SNR estimation that confirms this assumption.
2022
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Niroumand-Jadidi, M.; Bovolo, F.; Bresciani, M.; Gege, P.; Giardino, C.
Water Quality Retrieval from Landsat-9 (OLI-2) Imagery and Comparison to Sentinel-2 / Niroumand-Jadidi, M.; Bovolo, F.; Bresciani, M.; Gege, P.; Giardino, C.. - In: REMOTE SENSING. - ISSN 2072-4292. - 14:18(2022), pp. 459601-459618. [10.3390/rs14184596]
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