ME53A:
Frontiers in Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Science and Challenges III


Session ID#: 11307

Session Description:
The advent of satellite oceanography in late 1970's has given rise to a realization that our ocean plays a critical role in weather, climate and sustaining life on Earth.  Satellites have revolutionized our understanding of linkages among the ocean and other components of the Earth system and have revealed a diversity and complexity in ocean ecosystems not previously appreciated.  Further, the explosive growth of human populations along coastal margins places increasing pressure on these ecosystems, modifying natural processes and putting life, health, and property at risk from hazards inherent to the ocean. Scientific observations from the vantage point of space help solve important problems. Advanced technologies and frequent, repeated, multi-scale satellite observations, in combination with field measurements, are essential for observing and predicting changes.

Without global ocean color satellite data, humanity loses its capacity to take Earth’s pulse, explore its unseen world, and monitor our living marine resources. This session explores the next generation of ocean science questions from satellites and challenges to those observations from science, technology, and modeling perspectives.  Our goal is not only to understand and monitor the Earth’s changing climate and ecosystems, but also to enable the next generation of students to make new discoveries.

Primary Chair:  Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States
Moderators:  Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4855 Phytoplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • EC - Estuarine and Coastal
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ME53A-01
Applications of Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) observations (91592)
Young-Je Park, KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea Ocean Satellite Center, Ansan, South Korea and KOSC staff
ME53A-02
Diurnal Variations of Optical Properties of Four Species of Oceanic Phytoplankton and their Co-Varying Variables (90092)
Carina Poulin and Yannick Huot, University of Sherbrooke, Remote sensing, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
ME53A-03
Time-Series Hyperspectral and Multi-spectral Radiometric Measurements at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (88494)
Steven E Lohrenz1, Anya M Waite2, E Taylor Crockford2 and Sumit Chakraborty1, (1)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
ME53A-04
Thinking Outside of the Blue Marble: Novel Ocean Applications Using the VIIRS Sensor (91497)
Ryan Anthony Vandermeulen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/SSAI, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert Arnone, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
ME54B-0920
Investigating the Effects of Variable Water Type for VIIRS Calibration (93173)
Jennifer Bowers1, Sherwin Ladner2, Paul Martinolich3, Robert Arnone4, Adam Lawson2, Richard L Crout5 and Ryan Anthony Vandermeulen6, (1)NRL, Slidell, LA, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)Vencore, Inc., Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Oceanography, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/SSAI, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
ME53A-06
REVISITING SWIR-BASED ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OVER COASTAL WATERS: A RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS (89034)
Nima Pahlevan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jean-Claude Roger, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
ME54B-0932
The Sources That Give Rise to the Backscattering and Its Spectral Variation (87251)
Xiaodong Zhang, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, Deric Gray, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and David McKee, University of Strathclyde, Physics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom
ME53A-08
Impact of the pixel size on the estimation of the marine reflectance (92398)
Cedric Jamet, Laboratoire d'Oceanologie et de Geosciences, Universite du Littoral-Côte d'Opale, Wimereux, France and Hubert Loisel, ULCO, CNRS, Laboratory of Oceanology and Geosciences, UMR 8187 LOG, 32 Avenue Foch, 62930 Wimereux, France., Wimereux, France
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