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Published in final edited form as: Int J Remote Sens. 2018 Jan 29;39(9):2818–2846. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1430912

Table 6.

Comparisons of the difference between chl-a concentrations predicted using the 3 band algorithm and spectral data not corrected/corrected for aerosol effects using the L-8 SWIR 1 band

Landsat-8 Image	Date	n	Average difference (%) between chl-a predicted using non-aerosol and aerosol corrected R_rs
				LC80160352014233LGN00_sr	24 October 2014	599	14.8
				LC80160352015028LGN00_sr	28 January 2015	637	16.0
LC80160352015092LGN00_sr	2 April 2015	594	13.2
LC80160352015188LGN00_sr	7 July 2015	258	31.8
Average			18.9