<![CDATA[The attenuation coefficient (Kd) can be extracted by an apparent optical properties(AOP) approach to determine marine shallow-water habitat bathymetry based on an analytical method. Such a method was employed in the Red Sea by Benny and Dawson in 1983 using Landsat MSS imagery. Therefore, we applied the Benny and Dawson algorithm to extract bathymetry in shallow marine waters off Karimunjawa Island, Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia. We used the SPOT 6 satellite, which has four multispectral bands with a spatial resolution of 6 meters. The results show that three bands of SPOT 6 data (the blue, green, and red bands) can produce bathymetric information up to 30.29, 24.63 and 18.58 meters depth respectively. The determinations of the attenuation coefficients of the three bands are 0.08069, 0.09330, and 0.39641. The overall accuracy of absolute bathymetry of the blue, green, and red bands is 61.12%, 65.73%, and 26.25% respectively, and the kappa coefficients are 0.45, 0.52, and 0.13.]]>
