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Application of MODIS land/atmosphere bands to ocean processing. NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA SeaDAS Training Material. band wavelength resolution potential use 645 nm 250 m sediments, turbidity, IOPs 859 250 aerosols
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Application of MODIS land/atmosphere bands to ocean processing NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA SeaDAS Training Material SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
band wavelength resolution potential use • 645 nm 250 m sediments, turbidity, IOPs • 859 250 aerosols • 469 500 Ca, IOPs, CaCO3 • 555 500 Ca, IOPs, CaCO3 • 1240 500 aerosols • 1640 500 aerosols • 2130 500 aerosols MODIS land / atmosphere bands SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
Expanded MODIS ocean band suite increased spatial resolution and expanded dynamic range have cost of increased digitization error and reduced signal to noise SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
Multi-resolution implementation aggregation interpolation from Gumley et al. observed (TOA) radiances, geolocation, radiant path geometries interpolated or aggregated to a common resolution at start SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
Nanticoke Patuxent Wicomico Potomac Pocomoke Rappahannock York James RGB image (645,555,469) of Chesapeake Bay and tributaries SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
RGB image: 250-m resolution SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
nLw(645): 250-m resolution -0.1 mW cm-2m-1 sr-1 3.0 SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
water SWIR VIS NIR Use of MODIS SWIR bands in coastal waters Water absorption in SWIR >> NIR by more than one order of magnitude In SWIR, ocean is black evenin turbid waters, Lw(SWIR) = 0 See Wang and Shi, Geophys. Res. Let.32 (2005) SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
Chl retrievals using SWIR bands NIR-based Aerosols SWIR-based Aerosols SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
Preliminary results for the Chesapeake Bay upper middle lower SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
References http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/DOCS/modis_hires/ B.A. Franz et al., “MODIS land bands for ocean remote sensing applications,” Proc. Ocean Optics XVIII, Montreal, Canada, 9-13 October 2006. http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/DOCS/Publications/Franz_2006_ooxviii.pdf SeaDAS Training ~ NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group