Remote sensing for water quality and biological measurements in coastal waters

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980 · Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sensing; (United States)

OSTI ID:6867599

Johnson, R W; Harriss, R C

Recent remote sensing experiments in the United States' coastal waters indicate that certain biological and water quality parameters have distinctive spectral characteristics. Data outputs from remote sensors, to date, include: (1) high resolution measurements to determine concentrations and distributions of total suspended particulates, temperature, salinity, chlorophyll a, and phytoplankton color group associations from airborne and/or satellite platforms, and (2) low resolution measurements of total suspended solids, temperature, ocean color, and possibly chlorophyll from satellite platforms. A summary of platforms, sensors and parameters measured is given. Remote sensing, especially when combined with conventional oceanographic research methods, can be useful in such high priority research areas as estuarine and continental shelf sediment transport dynamics, transport and fate of marine pollutants, marine phytoplankton dynamics, and ocean fronts.

• Research Organization: NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
• OSTI ID: 6867599
• Journal Information: Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sensing; (United States), Vol. 46
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
COASTAL WATERS
REMOTE SENSING
WATER QUALITY
AERIAL MONITORING
CHLOROPHYLL
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
MICROORGANISMS
PARTICULATES
PHYTOPLANKTON
SALINITY
USA
WATER POLLUTION
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
DATA
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
HETEROCYCLIC ACIDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
MONITORING
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PHYTOCHROMES
PIGMENTS
PLANKTON
POLLUTION
PORPHYRINS
SURFACE WATERS
520100* - Environment
Aquatic- Basic Studies- (-1989)