Identifier |
Bit Index |
Description |
"LAND" |
23 |
Land product available |
"CLOUD" |
22 |
Cloud product available |
"WATER" |
21 |
Water product available |
"PCD_1_13" |
20 |
Uncertain normalized surface reflectance |
"PCD_14" |
19 |
Uncertain total water vapour content |
"PCD_15" |
18 |
Uncertain algal pigment index 1 or cloud top pressure or top of atmosphere vegetation index |
"PCD_16" |
17 |
Uncertain yellow substance and total suspended matter or rectified reflectances |
"PCD_17" |
16 |
Uncertain algal pigment index 2 or bottom of atmosphere vegetation index |
"PCD_18" |
15 |
Uncertain PAR or cloud albedo or land surface pressure |
"PCD_19" |
14 |
Uncertain aerosol type and optical thickness or cloud optical thickness |
"COASTLINE" |
13 |
Coastline pixel |
"COSMETIC" |
12 |
Cosmetic pixel (flag from level-1B) |
"SUSPECT" |
11 |
Suspect pixel (flag from level-1B) |
"OOADB" |
10 |
Aerosol model is out of aerosol model database |
"ABSOA_DUST" |
9 |
Dust-like absorbing aerosol selected for atmosphere correction |
"CASE2_S" |
8 |
Turbid (sediment dominated Case 2) water |
"CASE2_ANOM" |
7 & 21 |
Anomalous scattering water |
"TOAVI_BRIGHT" |
7 & 23 |
Bright pixel flagged by MGVI processing |
"CASE2_Y" |
6 & 21 |
Yellow substance loaded water |
"TOAVI_BAD" |
6 & 23 |
Bad pixel flagged by MGVI processing |
"ICE_HAZE" |
5 & 21 |
Ice or high aerosol load pixel |
"TOAVI_CSI" |
5 & 23 |
Cloud, Snow or Ice over land pixel acc. to MGVI processing |
"MEDIUM_GLINT" |
4 & 21 |
Corrected for glint (water) |
"TOAVI_WS" |
4 & 23 |
Water/Shadow pixel acc. to MGVI processing (land pixels) |
"LARS_ON" |
3 & 23 |
Land aerosol remote sensing turned on |
"BPAC_ON" |
3 & 21 |
Bright Pixels Atm. Correction activated (water) |
"HIGH_GLINT" |
2 & 21 |
High (uncorrected) glint (water) |
"TOAVI_INVAL_REC" |
2 & 23 |
Invalid rectification (land pixels) |
"LOW_SUN" |
1 |
Sun low above horizon (or conversely high Sun zenith angle) |
"LOW_PRESSURE" |
0 |
Computed pressure lower than ECMWF one |
"WHITE_SCATTERER" |
0 & 21 |
Presense of white scatterer in water |