Primary productivity in the northern Canary Islands region as inferred from SeaWiFS imagery

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 3481-3496

  Davenport, Robert ^a   Neuer, Susanne ^a   Helmke, Peer ^a   Perez Marrero, Javier ^b   Llinas, Octavio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; SATELLITES; SEDIMENTS;

SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHLOROPHYLL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEAWIFS; SEDIMENT TRAP; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS;

MORCHELLA ESCULENTA;

EID: 0036390774     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00095-4     Document Type: Article

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