Validation of the DigitalGlobe surface reflectance product

This paper illustrated the work done in 2014 and 2015 to validate AComp, the DigitalGlobe proprietary method to atmospherically compensate very high spatial resolution multi-spectral and panchromatic images. The algorithm has been validated against ground measurements on six locations in North America with different climates: rural, urban, semi-arid, and semi-tropical. In addition, aerosol optical depth and water vapor values from AERONET stations (where available) and MODIS were used to compare to the AComp retrievals.