Operational estimation of primary production at large geographical scales

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3437-3448

  Platt, Trevor ^a   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^b   Forget, Marie Hélène ^c   White III, George N ^a   Caverhill, Carla ^a   Bouman, Heather ^d   Devred, Emmanuel ^c   Son, SeungHyun ^c,e  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine phytoplankton; Ocean colour; Operational oceanography; Primary production; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; ALGAE CONTROL; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PEST CONTROL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENTS; PIXELS; PORPHYRINS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; WELL STIMULATION;

(001) PARAMETER; ARCHIVED DATA; BIO OPTICAL PROPERTIES; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATIONS; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; ELSEVIER (CO); GEOGRAPHICAL SCALES; NORTHWEST ATLANTIC; OPERATIONAL MODES; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (PP); RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; OCEAN COLOR; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 45849129000     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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