Overview of the SeaWiFS ocean sensor

Robert A. Barnes; Alan W. Holmes

doi:10.1117/12.152849

25 August 1993 Overview of the SeaWiFS ocean sensor

Robert A. Barnes, Alan W. Holmes

Proceedings Volume 1939, Sensor Systems for the Early Earth Observing System Platforms; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152849
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

SeaWiFS, the sea-viewing wide field-of-view sensor, will bring to the ocean community a welcomed and improved renewal of the ocean color remote sensing capability that was lost when the Nimbus-7 coastal zone color scanner (CZCS) ceased operating in 1986. 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 the global carbon cycle, as well as in other biogeochemical cycles. SeaWiFS data will be used to help determine 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 coastal currents, the physics of mixing, and the relationship between ocean physics and large-scale patterns of productivity. The data from SeaWiFS will help fill the gap in ocean biological observations between those of CZCS and those of the moderate resolution imaging spectrometer (MODIS) on the Earth Observing Satellite-A (EOS-A).

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Robert A. Barnes and Alan W. Holmes "Overview of the SeaWiFS ocean sensor", Proc. SPIE 1939, Sensor Systems for the Early Earth Observing System Platforms, (25 August 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152849

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