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Shipborne surveys are prone to the risk of grounding in shallow waters, and scheduled airborne surveys often fail to coincide with optimal atmospheric and water conditions. As an alternative, since its launch in 2018, ICESat-2 satellite laser profile altimetry data provide free and readily available data on a 91-day repeat cycle, which may contain incidental bathymetric returns when suitable environmental conditions prevail. In this paper, the vertical accuracy of extracted, refraction-adjusted ICESat-2 nearshore marine bathymetric data is evaluated at four test sites in a Northern hemisphere, temperate latitude location. Multiple ICEsat-2 bathymetric values that occurred in close horizontal proximity to one another were averaged at a spatial scale of 1 m and compared with Multibeam Echosounder bathymetric survey data and Global Navigation Satellite System reference data. Mean absolute errors of less than 0.15 m were observed up to depths of 5 m, with errors of less than 0.24 m (to 6 m), 0.39 m (to 7 m) and 0.52 m (to 10 m). The occurrence of larger bathymetric errors with depth, which increase to 0.54 m at maximum photon depths of 11 m, appears to be primarily related to reduced numbers of geolocated photons with depth. The accuracies achieved up to 6 m suggest that the manual extraction, refraction adjustment and bathymetric filtering steps were effective. Overall, the results suggest that ICESat-2 bathymetric data accuracy may be sufficient to be considered for use in nearshore coastal monitoring applications where shipborne and airborne bathymetric data might otherwise be applied.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13214352","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,1]],"date-time":"2021-11-01T22:24:22Z","timestamp":1635805462000},"page":"4352","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["ICESat-2 Marine Bathymetry: Extraction, Refraction Adjustment and Vertical Accuracy as a Function of Depth in Mid-Latitude Temperate Contexts"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Seamus","family":"Coveney","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, D09 Y5N0 Dublin, Ireland"},{"name":"Envo-Geo Environmental Geoinformatics, P81 FR62 Skibbereen, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xavier","family":"Monteys","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geological Survey Ireland, D04 K7X4 Dublin, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"John D.","family":"Hedley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Numerical Optics Ltd. 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