Relation of phytoplankton species to ecosystem definition in the North West Atlantic using remote sensing data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5885, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Devred, Emmanuel ^a,b   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^a,b   Fuentes yaco, César ^a,b   Maass, Heidi ^b   Platt, Trevor ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Ecological province; Ocean colour; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

COLOR; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DIATOMS; ECOLOGICAL PROVINCE; OCEAN-COLOUR; PHYTOPLANKTON;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 29244490597     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.620086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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