Inherent optical properties and remote sensing reflectance of Pomeranian lakes (Poland)**This paper was carried out within the framework of the SatBałtyk project funded by the European Union through European Regional Development Fund (contract No. POIG.01.01.02-22-011/09 entitled ‘The Satellite Monitoring of the Baltic Sea Environment’). The partial support for this study was also provided by the MNiSW (Ministry of Science Higher Education) as a research project N N306 066434 in the years 2008–2011 also as a part of Pomeranian University IO PAS’s statutory research.The results published in this paper were presented at the international conference Ocean Optics XXI, Glasgow, Scotland, 8–12 October 2012.