The Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative: III. A round-robin comparison on in-water bio-optical algorithms

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 271-294

  Brewin, Robert J W ^a   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^a   Müller, Dagmar ^b   Brockmann, Carsten ^c   Deschamps, Pierre Yves ^d   Devred, Emmanuel ^e   Doerffer, Roland ^b   Fomferra, Norman ^c   Franz, Bryan ^f   Grant, Mike ^a   Groom, Steve ^a   Horseman, Andrew ^a   Hu, Chuanmin ^g   Krasemann, Hajo ^b   Lee, ZhongPing ^h   Maritorena, Stéphane ⁱ   Mélin, Frédéric ^j   Peters, Marco ^c   Platt, Trevor ^a   Regner, Peter ^k   Smyth, Tim ^a   Steinmetz, Francois ^d   Swinton, John ^l   Werdell, Jeremy ^f   White, George N ^m   more..

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c GITZ   (Germany)

^d HYGEOS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^k ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^l Telespazio VEGA UK   (United Kingdom)

^m BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Inherent Optical Properties; Ocean colour; Phytoplankton; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANALYTICAL MODELS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COLOR; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; NASA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; ROUTERS;

CHLOROPHYLL A; DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES (IOPS); OCEAN-COLOUR; PHYTOPLANKTON ABSORPTIONS; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; SEMI-ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84923315383     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.09.016     Document Type: Article

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