Deriving optical metrics of coastal phytoplankton biomass from ocean colour

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-83

  Craig, Susanne E ^a   Jones, Chris T ^a   Li, William K W ^b   Lazin, Gordana ^b   Horne, Edward ^b   Caverhill, Carla ^b   Cullen, John J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a concentration; Coastal ocean; Empirical orthogonal function analysis; Phytoplankton absorption; Remote sensing reflectance

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; COASTAL OCEAN; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL MODELS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LOCAL MODEL; MODEL ESTIMATES; NORMALISATION; OCEAN-COLOUR; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; POTENTIAL UTILITY; REMOTE SENSING REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE SENSORS; STABLE MODEL; STATISTICAL RESAMPLING; TEST DATA; WATERBODIES; WAVEBANDS; WAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

CHLOROPHYLL; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

ALGAE CONTROL;

ABSORPTION; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEAN COLOR; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84862781858     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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