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5 Advancing Global Ocean Color Remote Sensing into the Future
Pages 58-69

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... This means that future questions are: sensors and algorithms need to be enhanced to support an increasing diversity of ocean color products and applications. • How are ocean ecosystems and the biodiversity they However, creating long time-series remains a major chal support influenced by climate and environmental variability lenge, one that is not unique to ocean color remote sensing and change, and how will these changes occur over time?
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From page 59...
... Satellite hyperspectral remote blooms and in coastal waters. sensing would make these observations routine and allow sustained application of the data for HAB detection, oil Conclusion: Advanced ocean color remote sensing capa spill monitoring, shallow benthic habitat characterization, bilities are central to answering questions related to chang and other research and research management applications.
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From page 60...
... Its primary applications are retrieval of for climate data records from the open ocean (assuming coastal optical properties, bathymetry, bottom classification, data comparability from different sensing systems) , daily and water inherent optical properties (IOP)
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From page 61...
... . LIDAR aerosol profiling measurements, simultanestudies to equip GEOCAPE with the high spatial and tempo- ous with passive radiometric data, will enable unsurpassed ral resolution required for coastal research.7 The capabilities atmospheric corrections that will result in vastly improved of the geostationary ocean color sensor include: multiple ocean geophysical parameters.
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From page 62...
... advance ocean color remote sensing and environmental optics in general. A comprehensive dataset would have all the information needed to do a "round trip" radiative transAtmospheric Corrections and Algorithm Development fer (RT)
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From page 63...
... Future satellite ocean color missions layer of the ocean to depths of 100 m or more. Therefore, need to take on the creation and community-wide adaptation ocean color sensors miss much of the information of interest; of field measurement standards and field sampling protocols this is particularly true for the Navy, which is interested in for future satellite ocean color data products.
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From page 64...
... . The IOCCG has also set up a working group on quality ocean color data is complex and requires a concerted this topic and will issue a report in 2011.12 effort.
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From page 65...
... at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is Both NASA and NOAA support ocean color applicainternationally recognized as a leader in producing well-cali- tions, with NASA focused primarily on research and develbrated, high-quality ocean color data products from multiple opment and NOAA focused on operational uses.
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From page 66...
... This group should be composed of agency mentation, and distribution for satellite ocean color data. representatives and also include outside experts from the Ideally, such a group will be flexible and able to respond ocean color research and applications community.
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From page 67...
... Researchers and ocean color remote sensing research. help improve data products, advance ocean color applica The large number of applications for ocean color prodtions, and train the new workforce.
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From page 68...
... has real progress toward establishing a seamless time-series brought together many space agencies involved in measur for a climate-quality ocean color data record. Engaging ing sea surface temperature from space in order to establish experts at NASA and NOAA could significantly contribute standards, perform comparisons of products and algorithms, to the success of this initiative with mutual benefits for the and produce global datasets by merging data from different United States and the international community.
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From page 69...
... To develop this climate-quality time-series and to Therefore, the committee recommends above that advance ocean remote sensing, strategic long-term plan - NASA and NOAA form a working group to determine the ning and budgeting is required for all aspects of follow-on most effective way to satisfy each agency's need for ocean missions, including how data are reprocessed, accessed, color products from VIIRS and future ocean color sensors. and stored across the individual missions.
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