The Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) completed a full-mission ocean color reprocessing of the data from the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean Sensor (HICO). This reprocessing is part of a multi-mission effort to update instrument calibrations and vicarious calibrations only. Sensor-independent changes are detailed in the R2018.0 Ocean Color Reprocessing General Description. Here we describe the HICO sensor-specific details of the reprocessing.
Reprocessing R2018.0 starts from the HICO Level-1B files. The Level-1B source files are updated to version 2 to support the conversion of data from HDF format to netCDF4.
The HICO instrument calibration is unchanged.
A vicarius calibration, as described in Ibrahim, et.al. 2018, was performed for this reprocsssing.
The product algorithms and product suites are identical to past versions. However, in R2018.0, the data format has changed from HDF to netCDF-4.
(2018). Atmospheric correction for hyperspectral ocean color retrieval with application to the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) Remote Sensing of Environment 204, 60-75. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.041
