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The Difficulty of Ocean Color Remote Sensing
The Difficulty of Ocean Color Remote Sensing

This VIIRS composite image collected over two orbits on July 22, 2017 illustrates some of the challenges faced by the ocean-color remote-sensing scientist, namely, clouds, aerosols, striping artifacts from imperfect sensor calibration, and even a bit of sun glint this far north.