Torres Strait, CORAL Project, September 02-06, 2016, HPLC Pigment and Ocean Colour Data

This record contains data generated from 19 stations in the Torres Strait between September 2, 2016 and September 6, 2016 using the vessel, Eclipse D. CSIRO acquired bio-optical measurements in the Torres Strait and Great Barrier Reef, as part of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Earth Venture Suborbital mission: Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL, http://coral.jpl.nasa.gov). The goal of this airborne hyperspectral remote sensing project is to provide critical data and new models needed to analyse the status of coral reefs and to predict their future status. The CORAL mission includes PRISM (Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer) airborne hyperspectral transects over portions of the southern and northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR), including the Torres Strait. Parameters measured include Total Suspended Particulate Matter (TSM), including the organic and inorganic fractions; the absorption coefficients of the particulate and dissolved components of the water column and the phytoplankton pigment concentration and composition. The data can be used for Ocean Colour sensor validation.

本数据集包含2016年9月2日至2016年9月6日期间，使用“伊克利普斯D号”（Eclipse D）科考船在托雷斯海峡（Torres Strait）的19个站位采集生成的观测数据。澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）在托雷斯海峡与大堡礁（Great Barrier Reef, GBR）区域开展了生物光学测量工作，该工作隶属于美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA）喷气推进实验室（Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL）旗下的地球探索亚轨道任务——珊瑚礁机载实验室（Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory, CORAL，http://coral.jpl.nasa.gov）。本机载高光谱遥感项目的核心目标是提供分析珊瑚礁现状及预测其未来发展趋势所需的关键数据与新型模型。CORAL任务涵盖了在大堡礁南北部分区域（包括托雷斯海峡）开展的PRISM（便携式遥感成像光谱仪，Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer）机载高光谱航带测绘工作。本次测量的参数包括总悬浮颗粒物（Total Suspended Particulate Matter, TSM）及其有机、无机组分；水体柱中颗粒物与溶解组分的吸收系数，以及浮游植物色素浓度与组成。该数据集可用于海洋水色传感器的标定与验证。