Remote sensing of phytoplankton blooming in the Baltic Sea using SeaWiFS data

Author

Siegel, H. ; Gerth, M. ; Ohde, T.

Author_Institution

Baltic Sea Res. Inst., Rostock, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

837

Abstract

Data of the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) are used to investigate phytoplankton blooms in the Baltic Sea in 1998 in combination with shipborne measurements and images of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. The SeaWiFS data were atmospheric corrected using an improved procedure, B. Sturm (1998). Algorithms derived for the Baltic were applied to retrieve the chlorophyll concentration and compared with the results of the standard SeaWiFS-algorithm and B. Sturm (1998). On the basis of SeaWiFS images of 1998 the spatial and temporal development of phytoplankton is studied. Meteorological conditions, ship measurements and NOAA-AVHRR derived sea surface temperature (SST) are considered to describe the initiating and influencing factors

Keywords

oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; AD 1998; AVHRR; Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer; Baltic Sea; IR; SST; SeaWiFS; algorithm; chlorophyll; infrared; marine biology; measurement technique; multispectral remote sensing; ocean; phytoplankton bloom; phytoplankton blooming; plankton; satellite remote sensing; sea surface temperature; visible; Atmospheric measurements; Image resolution; Image sensors; Marine vehicles; Meteorology; Ocean temperature; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774458

Filename

774458