Remote sensing of coccolithophore blooms in the Western South Atlantic Ocean

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-91

  Brownand, C W ^a,c   Podesta G P ^b  

^a Satellite Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL ZONES; ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COASTAL ZONE COLOR SCANNER; COCCOLITHOPHORE BLOOMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGAE; ALGAL BLOOM; ALGAL BLOOMS; BLOOM; CZCS; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSING;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTHWEST);

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI;

EID: 0030615902     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00140-X     Document Type: Article

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