Detection of macroalgae blooms by complex SAR imagery

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 190-195

  Shen, Hui ^a,b,c   Perrie, William ^b   Liu, Qingrong ^d   He, Yijun ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Green macroalgae blooms; High resolution early detection; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Unsupervised SAR index factor

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION; MACRO-ALGAE; OPEN WATER SURFACE; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; UNSUPERVISED DETECTION; UNSUPERVISED SAR INDEX FACTOR;

BLOOMS (METAL);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGAL BLOOM; COASTAL ZONE; DETECTION METHOD; MACROALGA; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; GREEN ALGA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACROALGA; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIMETRY; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER STRUCTURE;

GREEN MACROALGAE BLOOMS; HIGH RESOLUTION EARLY DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); UNSUPERVISED SAR INDEX FACTOR;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAWEED; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84892438381     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.10.044     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Boerner W.-M., Yan W., Xi A., Yamaguchi Y. Basic concepts of radar polarimetry. Proceedings of the NATO Advances Research Workshop on ' Direct and Inverse Methods in Radar Polarimetry', Bad Windsheim, Germany, September 18-24, 1988 1992, vol. 350 (part 1):155-245. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
2. Brand L., Compton A. Long-term increase in Karenia brevis abundance along the southwest Florida Coast. Harmful Algae 2007, 6:232-252. 10.1016/j.hal.2006.08.005.
3. Cui T., Zhang J., Sun L., Jia Y., Zhao W., Wang Z., Meng J. Satellite monitoring of massive green macroalgae bloom (GMB): imaging ability comparison of multi-source data and drifting velocity estimation. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2012, 33(17):5513-5527.
4. Fletcher R.L. The occurrence of 'green tides': a review. Marine Benthic Vegetation: Recent Changes and the Effects of Eutrophication 1996, 7-43. Springer, Berlin. W. Schramm, P.H. Nienhuis (Eds.).
5. Gower J.F.R., King S.A. Distribution of floating Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean mapped using MERIS. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2011, 32(7):1917-1929. 10.1080/01431161003639660.
6. Hu C. A novel ocean color index to detect floating algae in the global oceans. Remote Sensors Environment 2009, 113:2118-2129. 10.1016/j.rse.2009.05.012.
7. Hu C., Li D., Chen C., Ge J., Muller-Karger F.E., Liu J., Yu F., He M.-X. On the recurrent Ulva prolifera blooms in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea. Journal Geophysics Research 2010, 115:C05017. 10.1029/2009JC005561.
8. Jiang X., Zou Y., Wang H., Zhu H. Application study on quick extraction of Entermorpha prolif era information using SAR data. Acta Oceanologica Sinica 2009, 31(2):63-68.
9. Kudryavtsev V., Chapron B., Myasoedov A., Collard F., Johannessen J. On dual co-polarized SAR measurements of the Ocean surface, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Letter 2013, 10(4). 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2222341.
10. Luscombe, A., 2008. RADARSAT-2 polarimetric mode calibration and data quality assessment. In: Proc. CEOS SAR Calibration and Validation Workshop, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 27-28 November, 2008.
11. Marmorino G.O., Miller W.D., Smith G.B., Bowles J.H. Airborne imagery of a disintegrating Sargassum drift line. Deep Sea Research Part I 2011, 58(3):316-321.
12. Pang S.J., Liu F., Shan T., Xu N., Zhang Z., Gao S., Chopin T., Sun S. Tracking the algal origin of the Ulva bloom in the Yellow Sea by a combination of molecular, morphological and physiological analyses. Marine Environmental Research 2010, 69(4):207-215. 10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.10.007.
13. Praks J., Koeniguer E.C., Hallikainen M.T. Alternatives to target entropy and alpha angle in SAR polarimetry. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2009, 47(7):2262-2274.
14. Touzi R., Boerner W.M., Lee J.S., Lueneburg E. A review of polarimetry in the context of synthetic aperture radar: concepts and information extraction. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 2004, 30(3):380-407. 10.5589/m04-013.
15. Zhang B., Perrie W. Cross-polarized synthetic aperture radar: a new potential measurement technique for hurricanes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2012, 531-541. 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00001.1.