Development of a neural network algorithm for retrieving concentrations of chlorophyll, suspended matter and yellow substance from radiance data of the ocean color and temperature scanner

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 519-530

  Tanaka, Akihiko ^a   Kishino, Motoaki ^b   Doerffer, Roland ^c   Schiller, Helmut ^c   Oishi, Tomohiko ^d   Kubota, Tadashi ^d  

^a Nagasaki Industrial Promotion Found   (Japan)

^b GKSS Research Centre ^*  (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADEOS OCTS; Chlorophyll a; Inverse modelling; Neural network; Ocean color algorithm; Suspended matter; Yellow substance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHLOROPHYLL; OCEAN COLOR; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 4344622455     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOCE.0000038345.99050.c0     Document Type: Article

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