R/P-37

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Satellite remote sensing with SeaWiFS to detect seasonal and interannual variability in phytoplankton abundance in the Chesapeake Bay and adjacent coastal waters

Principal Investigator:

Lawrence W. Harding, Jr.

Start/End Year:

1994 - 1998

Institution:

Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal Investigator:

Wayne E. Esaias, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Description:

The objective of the proposed research is to use ocean color data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) to determine the distribution of chlorophyll in the Chesapeake Bay and adjacent coastal waters. This work will concentrate on the development of Case 2 pigment algorithms for estuarine and coastal waters, development of a long-term climatology for the Bay, and integration of satellite, aircraft, and shipboard data into a geographic information system (GIS) for geographic data base development, graphical display, and spatial modeling using UNIX ARC/INFO.

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