NOAA–NASA Coastal Zone Color Scanner Reanalysis Effort

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1615-1628

  Gregg, Watson W ^a   Conkright, Margarita E ^b   O’reilly, John E ^c   Patt, Frederick S ^d   Wang, Menghua H ^e   Yoder, James A ^f   Casey, Nancy W ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^g SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONES; OPTICAL SENSORS; SCANNING;

BIOOPTICAL ALGORITHMS;

SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 0037139034     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001615     Document Type: Article

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