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Ocean Colour: Theory and Applications in a Decade of CZCS Experience (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Ocean Colour: Theory and Applications in a Decade of CZCS Experience (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Eurocourses: Remote Sensing, 3
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Optical remote sensing is of invaluable help in understanding the
marine environment and its biogeochemical and physical processes.
The Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), which operated on board the
Nimbus-7 satellite from late 1978 to early 1986, has been the main
source of ocean colour data. Much work has been devoted to CZCS
data processing and analysis techniques throughout the 1980s. After
a decade of experience, the Productivity of the Global Ocean (PGO)
Activity - which was established in the framework of the
International Space Year 1992 (ISY '92) by SAFISY, the Space Agency
Forum of ISY - sponsored a workshop aimed at providing a reference
in ocean colour science and at promoting the full exploitation of
the CZCS historical data in the field of biological oceanography.
The present volume comprises a series of state-of-the-art
contributions on theory, applications and future perspectives of
ocean colour. After an introduction on the historical perspective
of ocean colour, a number of articles are devoted to the CZCS
theoretical background, on radiative transfer and in-water topics,
as well as on calibration, atmospheric correction and pigment
concentration retrieval algorithms developed for the CZCS. Further,
a review is given of major applications of CZCS data around the
world, carried out in the past decade. The following part of the
book is centered on the application of ocean colour to the
assessment of marine biological information, with particular regard
to plankton biomass, primary productivity and the coupling of
physical/biological models. The links between global oceanic
production and climate dynamics are also addressed. Finally, the
last section is devoted to future approaches and goals of ocean
colour science, and to planned sensors and systems. The book is
required reading for those involved in ocean colour and related
disciplines, providing an overview of the current status in this
field as well as stimulating the debate on new ideas and
developments for upcoming ocean colour missions.
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