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Analysis of testbed airborne multispectral scanner data from superflux ii. [chesapeake bay plume and james shelf data
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Hardesty, C. A. Bahn, G. S. Bowker, D. E. Jobson, D. J. |
| Copyright Year | 1981 |
| Description | A test bed aircraft multispectral scanner (TBAMS) was flown during the James Shelf, Plume Scan, and Chesapeake Bay missions as part of the Superflux 2 experiment. Excellent correlations were obtained between water sample measurements of chlorophyll and sediment and TBAMS radiance data. The three-band algorithms used were insensitive to aircraft altitude and varying atmospheric conditions. This was particularly fortunate due to the hazy conditions during most of the experiments. A contour map of sediment, and also chlorophyll, was derived for the Chesapeake Bay plume along the southern Virginia-Carolina coastline. A sediment maximum occurs about 5 nautical miles off the Virginia Beach coast with a chlorophyll maximum slightly shoreward of this. During the James Shelf mission, a thermal anomaly (or front) was encountered about 50 miles from the coast. There was a minor variation in chlorophyll and sediment across the boundary. During the Chesapeake Bay mission, the Sun elevation increased from 50 degrees to over 70 degrees, interfering with the generation of data products. |
| File Size | 677777 |
| Page Count | 15 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19820002809 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9j43kg8x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1981-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Oceanography Algorithms Multispectral Band Scanners Radiance Continental Shelves Chesapeake Bay Us Sediments Sea Truth Remote Sensing Data Correlation Plumes Chlorophylls Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |