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In recent years, the Ocean and Land Color Instruments (OLCI) onboard the Sentinel 3 (S3) A and B satellites were launched, which provide data about various aquatic environments on advantageous spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions with high SNR. Although S3 OLCI could be favorable to monitor high northern latitude waters, there have been several challenges related to Chl-a concentration retrieval in these waters due to their unique optical properties coupled with challenging environments including high sun zenith angle, presence of sea ice, and frequent cloud covers. In this work, we aim to overcome these difficulties by developing a machine-learning (ML) approach designed to estimate Chl-a concentration from S3 OLCI data in high northern latitude optically complex waters. The ML model is optimized and requires only three S3 OLCI bands, reflecting the physical characteristic of Chl-a as input in the regression process to estimate Chl-a concentration with improved accuracy in terms of the bias (five times improvements.) The ML model was optimized on data from Arctic, coastal, and open waters, and showed promising performance. Finally, we present the performance of the optimized ML approach by computing Chl-a maps and corresponding certainty maps in highly complex sub-Arctic and Arctic waters. We show how these certainty maps can be used as a support to understand possible radiometric calibration issues in the retrieval of Level 2 reflectance over these waters. This can be a useful tool in identifying erroneous Level 2 Remote sensing reflectance due to possible failure of the atmospheric correction algorithm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11182076","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,5]],"date-time":"2019-09-05T03:22:36Z","timestamp":1567653756000},"page":"2076","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Developing a New Machine-Learning Algorithm for Estimating Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Optically Complex Waters: A Case Study for High Northern Latitude Waters by Using Sentinel 3 OLCI"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1800-3811","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Katalin","family":"Blix","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, UiT the Arctic, University of Norway, 9019 Troms\u00f8, Norway"}]},{"given":"Juan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Department de Biologie, Universite Laval, 1045 ave. de la Medecine, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5919-4116","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Philippe","family":"Massicotte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Department de Biologie, Universite Laval, 1045 ave. de la Medecine, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6327-9948","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Atsushi","family":"Matsuoka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Department de Biologie, Universite Laval, 1045 ave. de la Medecine, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada"},{"name":"Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, CNRS, Universite Laval, 1045 ave. de la Medecine, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"185","DOI":"10.1002\/2013RG000431","article-title":"Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity","volume":"52","author":"Meier","year":"2014","journal-title":"Rev. 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