The Landsat TM satellite images are converted to the topof
atmosphere (TOA) reflectance, and then corrected for
Rayleigh scattering and molecular absorption, In a
previous work, a simple aerosol and glint correction
procedure by subtracting the reflectance of the nearinfrared
(NIR) band from the visible bands. This process
assumed that the water was dark in the NIR band. But, this
hypothesis was not useable in inland and near-shore
coastal waters with great turbidity due to scattering by
suspended sediment in the NIR band. The reflectance in
short-wave infrared (SWIR) band to implement
atmospheric correction. After correction for atmospheric
effects and surface glints. The water reflectance is
converted to the reflectance. The reflectance is related to
the absorption coefficient ai and backscattering coefficient
bbi at the i-th spectral band by the expression