Seasonal and interannual pigment concentration in the canary islands region from CZCS data and comparison with observations from the ESTOC

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1419-1433

  Davenport, R ^a   Neuer, S ^a   Hernandez Guerra, A ^b   Rueda, M J ^c   Llinas, O ^c   Fischer, G ^a   Wefer, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; PIGMENTS; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SEDIMENTATION;

CANARY ISLANDS; COASTAL ZONE COLOR SCANNER; WINTER PHYTOPLANKTON;

REMOTE SENSING;

CZCS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SEDIMENTATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CANARY ISLANDS;

EID: 0033541992     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311699212803     Document Type: Article

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