IS41A:
From Watersheds to the Open Ocean: Advances in Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water Quality, Food Security, Ecosystems, and Change I


Session ID#: 37269

Session Description:
Marine, coastal, and inland waters provide a range of societal benefits including food and water supply, economic support, and ecosystem biodiversity and productivity. However, these resources are increasingly stressed due to natural and anthropogenic factors. Remote sensing from ground-based, airborne, and satellite platforms offers a unique perspective on the world's water bodies, with the ability to assess quality, safety, and change at improved temporal resolutions, and at scales that extend from inland waters to the open ocean.

Active and passive sensors with improved radiometric performance and spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions open up possibilities for detailed quantitative understanding of various physical and/or biogeochemical processes. Recent and future advances in remote sensing include instrumentation as well as algorithm development, synergies, and applications. We welcome submissions illustrating innovative methods of processing or applying remotely sensed data that highlight benefits to society. These include measuring and monitoring water quality, food security, ecosystem biodiversity and productivity, and physical properties (e.g.: wind, salinity, and currents). Topics such as atmospheric correction, algorithm design, object detection, bio-optical modelling of optically complex waters, and generation of tools and data products best suited to end-users for effective management of water/marine resources are encouraged.
Primary Chair:  Lauren Biermann, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Earth Observation Science and Applications, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Wesley Moses, Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States, Chris Banks, National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Kevin Ross Turpie, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States
Moderators:  Lauren Biermann, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Earth Observation Science and Applications, Plymouth, United Kingdom and Wesley Moses, Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Wesley Moses, Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4264 Ocean optics [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4894 Instruments, sensors, and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • B - Biodiversity
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A forward-looking, national-scale remote sensing-based model of tidal marsh aboveground carbon stocks (314644)
Kristin B Byrd1, Laurel Ballanti1, Nathan Thomas2, Dung Nguyen1, James Robert Holmquist3, Marc Simard4 and Lisamarie Windham-Myers5, (1)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)NASA JPL, CA, United States, (3)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Coastal and inland water applications of meter scale satellite imagery (305356)
Quinten Vanhellemont1, Alexandre Castagna2, David Doxaran3, Yafei Luo3 and Dimitry Van der Zande4, (1)Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, (2)Ghent University, Belgium, (3)LOV/UPMC, France, (4)Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
Evaluating and achieving consistency in OLCI and MERIS ocean color data products to advance watershed monitoring and time-series applications (312949)
Jeremy Werdell1, Sean W Bailey1, Keith A Loftin2, Blake A Schaeffer3, Bridget Seegers4 and Richard P Stumpf5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)USGS Kansas Water Science Center, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)Environmental Protection Agency, NERL Exposure Methods and Measurement Division, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NOAA Natl Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Aerosol Parameters from the Ocean Color Satellite Sensors and AERONET-OC and Their Impact on Water Reflectance Spectra (321833)
Alex Gilerson1, Eder Herrera2, Yaron Klein2, Robert Foster3, Barry Gross2, Robert Arnone4 and Samir Ahmed5, (1)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (2)CUNY City College of New York, Electrical Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States
Vicarious reflectance calibration of hyperspectral radiance images and spectral decomposition for CyanoHAB monitoring (319216)
Joseph D. Ortiz1, Dulcinea Avouris2, Stephen Schiller3, Jeffrey C Luvall4, John Lekki5, Roger P Tokars5, Robert C Anderson6, Robert A Shuchman7, Michael Sayers7 and Richard Becker8, (1)Kent State University Kent Campus, Geology, Kent, OH, United States, (2)Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States, (3)South Dakota State Univ, Physics, Brookings, SD, United States, (4)NASA MSFC NSSTC, Applied Science Team, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Glenn Research Center, Optics and Photonics Branch, Cleveland, OH, United States, (6)NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States, (7)Michigan Tech Research Inst, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)University of Toledo, Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States

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