Spectral Classification of the Yellow Sea and Implications for Coastal Ocean Color Remote Sensing

Spectral Classification of the Yellow Sea and Implications for Coastal Ocean Color Remote Sensing

Remote sensing reflectance (Rrs) classification of coastal waters is a useful tool to monitor environmental processes and manage marine environmental resources. This study presents classification work for data sets that were collected in the Yellow Sea during six cruises (spring and autumn, 2003; summer and winter, 2006/2007; and spring and autumn, 2007). Specifically, we analyzed classificatio...

Ocean Monitoring, Coastal Studies and Remote Sensing

LONG-TERM GOALS The long-term goal of this research is to develop and test predictive models for nearshore and coastal processes. Initial development and testing of models is to be accomplished through monitoring over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Model development is to be accomplished within the framework of the nearshore as a hierarchical complex system, wherein, at discretel...

Bayesian Methodology for Ocean-color Remote Sensing

The inverse ocean color problem, i.e., the retrieval of marine reflectance from top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance, is examined in a Bayesian context. The solution is expressed as a probability distribution that measures the likelihood of encountering specific values of the marine reflectance given the observed TOA reflectance. This conditional distribution, the posterior distribution, allows ...

Spectral interdependence of remote-sensing reflectance and its implications on the design of ocean color satellite sensors.

Using 901 remote-sensing reflectance spectra (R(rs)(λ), sr⁻¹, λ from 400 to 700 nm with a 5 nm resolution), we evaluated the correlations of R(rs)(λ) between neighboring spectral bands in order to characterize (1) the spectral interdependence of R(rs)(λ) at different bands and (2) to what extent hyperspectral R(rs)(λ) can be reconstructed from multiband measurements. The 901 R(rs) spectra were ...

Coastal Environment Remote Sensing in Bohai and Yellow Sea in China