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Seawifs technical report series. volume 1: an overview of seawifs and ocean color
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Esaias, Wayne E. Feldman, Gene C. Gregg, Watson W. McClain, Charles R. |
| Editor | Firestone, Elaine R. Hooker, Stanford B. |
| Copyright Year | 1992 |
| Description | The purpose of this series of technical reports is to provide current documentation of the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project activities, instrument performance, algorithms, and operations. This documentation is necessary to ensure that critical information related to the quality and calibration of the satellite data is available to the scientific community. SeaWiFS will bring to the ocean community a welcomed and improved renewal of the ocean color remote sensing capability lost when the Nimbus-7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) ceased operating in 1986. The goal of SeaWiFS, scheduled to be launched in August 1993, is to examine oceanic factors that affect global change. Because of the role of phytoplankton in the global carbon cycle, data obtained from SeaWiFS will be used to assess the ocean's role in this cycle, as well as other biogeochemical cycles. SeaWiFS data will be used to help elucidate the magnitude and variability of the annual cycle of primary production by marine phytoplankton and to determine the distribution and timing of spring blooms. The observations will help to visualize the dynamics of ocean and costal currents, the physics of mixing, and the relationships between ocean physics and large-scale patterns of productivity. The data will help fill the gap in ocean biological observations between those of the CZCS and the upcoming Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on the Earth Observing System-A (EOS-A) satellite. |
| File Size | 2497875 |
| Page Count | 28 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19920020443 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t29934z0k |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1992-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Oceanography Imaging Spectrometers Productivity Oceans Calibrating Variability General Overviews Field of View Ocean Dynamics Coastal Zone Color Scanner Remote Sensing Carbon Cycle Biogeochemistry Algorithms Water Color Nimbus 7 Satellite Phytoplankton Ocean Currents Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
