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To highlight the advantages of GF-1 data in the atmospheric environment monitoring, an improved deep blue (DB) algorithm using only four bands (visible\u2013near infrared) of GF-1\/WFV was adopted to retrieve the aerosol optical depth (AOD) at ~500 m resolution in this paper. An optimal reflectivity technique (ORT) method was proposed to construct monthly land surface reflectance (LSR) dataset through converting from MODIS LSR product according to the WFV and MODIS spectral response functions to make the relationship more suitable for GF-1\/WFV. There is a good spatial coincidence between our retrieved GF-1\/WFV AOD results and MODIS\/Terra or Himawari-8\/AHI AOD products at 550 nm, but GF-1\/WFV AOD with higher resolution can better characterized the details of regional pollution. Additionally, our retrieved GF-1\/WFV AOD (2016\u20132019) results showed a good agreement with AERONET ground-based AOD measurements, especially, at low levels of AOD. Based on the same LSR dataset transmitted from 2016\u20132018 MODIS LSR products, RORT of 2016\u20132018 and 2019 GF-1\/WFV AOD retrievals can reach up to 0.88 and 0.94, respectively, while both of RMSEORT are smaller than 0.13. 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