<![CDATA[Depth data can be used to produce seabed profile, oceanography, biology, and sea level rise. Remote sensing technology can be used to estimate the depth of shallow marine waters characterized by the ability of light to penetrate water bodies. One image that can estimate the depth is SPOT 6 which has three visible canals and one NIR channel with 6 meter spatial resolution. This study used SPOT 6 image on March 22, 2015. The image was first being dark pixel atmospheric corrected by making 30 polygons. The originality of this method was to build a correlation between the dark pixel value of red and green channels with the depth of the field measurement results, made on June 3 to 9, 2015. The algorithm derived experimentally consisted of: thresholding which served to separate the land by the sea and the correlation function. The correlation function was obtained: first correlating the observation value with each band, then calculating the difference of minimum pixel darkness value and minimum for red and green channel was 0.056 and 0.0692. The model was then constructed by using the comparison proportions, so that the linear equations were obtained in two channels: Z (X1, X2) = 406.26 X1 + 327.21 X2 - 28.48. Depth estimation results were for a 5-meter scale, the most efficient estimation with the smallest error relative mean occurred in shallow water depth from 20 to 25 meters, while the result of 10 meters scale from 20 to 30 meters and the estimated depth had similar patterns or could be said close to reality. This method was able to detect sea depths up to 25 meters and had a small RMS error of 0.653246 meters. Thus the two-channel method could offer a fast, flexible, efficient, and economical solution to map topography of the ocean floor.]]>
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