TY - JOUR
T1 - Variability in specific-absorption properties and their use in a semi-analytic ocean colour algorithm for MERIS in North Sea and Western English Channel coastal waters.
AU - Tilstone, G.H.
AU - Peters, S.W.M.
AU - van der Woerd, H.J.
AU - Eleveld, M.A.
AU - Ruddick, K.
AU - Schönfeld, W.
AU - Krasemann, H.
AU - Martinez-Vicente, V.
AU - Blondeau-Patissier, D.
AU - Röttgers, R.
AU - Soerensen, K.
AU - Joergensen, P.V.
AU - Shutler, J.D.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Coastal areas of the North Sea are commercially important for fishing and tourism, and are subject to the increasingly adverse effects of harmful algal blooms, eutrophication and climate change. Monitoring phytoplankton in these areas using Ocean Colour Remote Sensing is hampered by the high spatial and temporal variations in absorption and scattering properties. In this paper we demonstrate a clustering method based on specific-absorption properties that gives accurate water quality products from the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS). A total of 468 measurements of Chlorophyll a (Chla), Total Suspended Material (TSM), specific- (sIOP) and inherent optical properties (IOP) were measured in the North Sea between April 1999 and September 2004. Chla varied from 0.2 to 35mgm
AB - Coastal areas of the North Sea are commercially important for fishing and tourism, and are subject to the increasingly adverse effects of harmful algal blooms, eutrophication and climate change. Monitoring phytoplankton in these areas using Ocean Colour Remote Sensing is hampered by the high spatial and temporal variations in absorption and scattering properties. In this paper we demonstrate a clustering method based on specific-absorption properties that gives accurate water quality products from the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS). A total of 468 measurements of Chlorophyll a (Chla), Total Suspended Material (TSM), specific- (sIOP) and inherent optical properties (IOP) were measured in the North Sea between April 1999 and September 2004. Chla varied from 0.2 to 35mgm
U2 - 10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.019
DO - 10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.019
M3 - Article
SN - 0034-4257
VL - 118
SP - 320
EP - 338
JO - Remote Sensing of Environment
JF - Remote Sensing of Environment
ER -