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Sentinel-3B was manoeuvred into a tandem configuration with its operational twin Sentinel-3A already in orbit few weeks after its launch, which was followed by a short drift phase during which Sentinel-3B was progressively moved to a specific orbit phasing of 140\u00b0 separation from the sentinel-3A. Harmonisation is performed at Level 1 for the radiometric alignment of the OLCI-A TOA radiances to the ones of OLCI-B, considering the slight spectral differences between the two instruments. The benefits of this harmonisation for the main Level 2 products are assessed in the present manuscript for both land and water products. The results validate such benefits showing accuracy between the two sensors after harmonisation better than the products requirements specifications. For the water processing branch, this accuracy opens a path toward an ensemble Sentinel-3 system vicarious calibration with ground-truth measurements. For land products, the tandem phase analysis is also an opportunity to demonstrate that the terrestrial chlorophyll index product requires improvements of the preliminary spectral adjustment of the red-edge channel at 709 nm. As comparisons from the measurements acquired over the tandem phase provides confidence in the alignment of the OLCI-A and OLCI-B series of products, preliminary analysis of the measurements acquired over the drift phase provides the first insights into the sensitivity of the processing algorithms to the geometry of acquisition as well as to calibration residuals of the OLCI field-of-view. As the harmonisation currently performs a radiometric alignment of OLCI-A to OLCI-B, the question of the reference sensor for operational implementation of the harmonisation raises concerns on the individual quality of the calibration of each sensor, notably their across-track consistency. Following the investigations performed at Level 1, where relatively strong calibration residuals are shown between the OLCI cameras and very similarly for both instruments; we discuss the impact of these residuals at L2 using an empirical correction and further conclude with the need to address these problematics with more attention in the future. We conclude with the extreme usefulness of the tandem phase analysis, presently for Level 2 products, and the need to further monitor the temporal stability of the cross-calibration of the OLCI payloads with a view to implementing their harmonisation at operational level.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12172702","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]],"date-time":"2020-08-20T21:13:42Z","timestamp":1597958022000},"page":"2702","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["OLCI A\/B Tandem Phase Analysis, Part 2: Benefits of Sensors Harmonisation for Level 2 Products"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Nicolas","family":"Lamquin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"ACRI-ST, 260 Route du Pin Montard, 06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis, France"}]},{"given":"Alexis","family":"D\u00e9ru","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ACRI-ST, 260 Route du Pin Montard, 06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7393-5910","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"S\u00e9bastien","family":"Clerc","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ACRI-ST, 260 Route du Pin Montard, 06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis, France"}]},{"given":"Ludovic","family":"Bourg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ACRI-ST, 260 Route du Pin Montard, 06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis, France"}]},{"given":"Craig","family":"Donlon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"European Space Agency, ESTEC\/EOP-SME, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"37","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2011.07.024","article-title":"The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Sentinel-3 mission","volume":"120","author":"Donlon","year":"2012","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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