Sensor independent adjacency correction algorithm for coastal and inland water systems

The presented adjacency correction algorithm is based on the use of the point spread function (PSF) which allows calculating the contribution of reflections from the nearby pixels to the apparent radiance of the target. The analytical expression of the PSF for an arbitrary stratified atmosphere is obtained in the approximation of primary scattering, whereas the full equation of radiative transfer is used for the estimation of the radiance reflected from the surface. The algorithm is sensor independent and can be applied for processing images of water basins with arbitrary shape of the shore line and under different geometries of observation. The program using this algorithm is included in Modular Inversion Program — MIP (Heege et al., 2014) for processing of satellite images on a routine basis. Examples of processing results are presented in the paper.