IS42A:
From Watersheds to the Open Ocean: Advances in Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water Quality, Food Security, Ecosystems, and Change II


Session ID#: 37275

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 Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Kevin Ross Turpie, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, Baltimore, MD, United States
Moderators:  Kevin Ross Turpie, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, Baltimore, MD, United States and Wesley Moses, Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Kevin Ross Turpie, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, Baltimore, MD, 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:

Modelling the chlorophyll concentration of phytoplankton groups from space: integrating considerations from ecosystem modellers (316863)
Robert J W Brewin1, Stefano Ciavatta2, Jozef Skakala2, Shubha Sathyendranath3, Thomas S Jackson4, Gavin Tilstone5, Kieran Francis Curran5, Ruth L Airs4, Denise Cummings6, Vanda Brotas7, Emanuele Organelli4, Giorgio Dall'Olmo8 and Dionysios E Raitsos2, (1)University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, (2)National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, National Centre for Earth Observations, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (4)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (5)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Remote Sensing Group, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (6)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom, (7)MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, (8)Plymouth marine Laboratory, National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie (318770)
Andrea Joy Vander Woude, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, United States, Sherry L. Palacios, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA/ARC, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Timothy Moore, Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC, United States and Steven A Ruberg, NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Assessing Phytoplankton Phenology in a Typical Tropical Marine Ecosystem Using Satellite, Model and BIOARGO-based Approaches (316828)
John Anthony Gittings Sr, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Biology, Athens, Greece, Dionysios E Raitsos, National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom, George Krokos, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Physical Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Malika Kheireddine, KAUST- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Marine Science, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Marie Racault, Plymouth Marine laboratory, England, United Kingdom and Ibrahim Hoteit, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
CyAN satellite-derived Cyanobacteria products in support of Public Health Protection (319970)
Darryl J Keith, Environmental Protection Agency, NHEERL Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, United States, Blake A Schaeffer, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, United States, Tina Laidlaw, US EPA, Region 8, Helena, MT, United States, Richard P Stumpf, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, United States, Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Benjamin Holcomb, Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Quality, Saly Lake City, UT, United States, James M. Riley, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States and Sara Ernst, USEPA, NHEERL Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, United States
Building Bridges to Satellites: How the UK Government is Increasing Uptake of Remotely Sensed Data for Integration into Policy Development and Monitoring Strategies. (308421)
Lauren Biermann, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Earth Observation Science and Applications, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Landsat 8 Retrieval of Boston Harbor Water Quality: 2013 to present (326691)
Patrick Sheldon1, Nima Pahlevan2, Francesco Peri1, Crystal Schaaf3, Zhongping Lee4 and Robert F Chen1, (1)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States

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