Nimbus-7 coastal zone color scanner: system description and initial imagery

Autor: Roswell W. Austin, James L. Mueller, Howard R. Gordon, Dennis K. Clark, D. Ball, W. H. Wilson, Robert C. Wrigley, Charles S. Yentsch, F. Anderson, S. Z. El-Sayed, Warren A. Hovis, Edward T. Baker, B. Sturm
Rok vydání: 1980
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Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.). 210(4465)
ISSN: 0036-8075
Popis: The Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) on Nimbus-7, launched in October 1978, is the only sensor in orbit that is specifically designed to study living marine resources. The initial imagery confirms that CZCS data can be processed to a level that reveals subtle variations in the concentration of phytoplankton pigments. This development has potential applications for the study of large-scale patchiness in phytoplankton distributions, the evolution of spring blooms, water mass boundaries, and mesoscale circulation patterns.
Databáze: OpenAIRE