IS43A:
From Watersheds to the Open Ocean: Advances in Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water Quality, Food Security, Ecosystems, and Change III


Session ID#: 37280

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:  Chris Banks, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Lauren Biermann, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Earth Observation Science and Applications, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Lauren Biermann, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Earth Observation Science and Applications, Plymouth, United Kingdom
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:

Kieran W Newman, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom; University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Jennifer M Brown, National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Adrian Morphet, Lancaster City Council, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Chris Banks1, Paolo Cipollini2, Francisco M Calafat1, Helen M Snaith3, Andrew GP Shaw4, Jerome Bouffard5 and Pierre Féménias6, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)British Oceanographic Data Centre, United Kingdom, (4)SKYMAT Ltd., Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, (6)European Space Agency, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Menghua Wang1, Lide Jiang2, Xiaoming Liu3, Seunghyun Son4, Junqiang Sun5, Karlis Mikelsons6, Wei Shi7, Liqin Tan5, Xiaolong Wang5, Mike Chu5 and Veronica P Lance5, (1)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Colorado State University Fort Collins, Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Research, Fort Collins, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (4)CIRA at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (6)GST, Inc, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Brian B Barnes1, Rodrigo Alejandro Garcia2, Chuanmin Hu1 and Zhongping Lee2, (1)University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
Chuanmin Hu1, Lian Feng2, Zhongping Lee3, Bryan A Franz4, Jeremy Werdell4, Sean W Bailey4 and Christopher W. Proctor4, (1)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (2)Southern University of Science and Technology of China, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, (3)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Andrea Hilborn1, Maycira Costa1, Karyn Suchy2,3 and Akash R Sastri4, (1)University of Victoria, Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Institute of Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada