ECOHAB: Culver_M- NOAA CSC/Coastal Remote Sensing West Florida Coast Cruise, April 1999 (NODC Accession 0000535)

Abstract:
The Coastal Services Center's (CSC) Coastal Remote Sensing
(CRS) program is involved with programs to validate
satellite algorithms for ocean properties. CRS is involved
with the effort to validate ocean color algorithms to derive
chlorophyll concentrations from the NASA ocean color
satellite, Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS).
This program is funded in part through a NASA Sensor
Intercomparison and Merger for Biological and
Interdisciplinary Oceanic Studies ( SIMBIOS) contract
awarded to CRS and the Ocean Color Program at the NOAA
NESDIS Office of Research and Applications. In addition, the
cruise was conducted in support of the ECOHAB Project
(Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms) and
eventual forecasting efforts. The cruise also supports
ground truthing of aircraft overflights for the NOAA/CSC
Estuarine Habitat Program (EHAB).
Purpose: The objective of this cruise was to obtain bio-optical
data from diverse water types on the West Florida Shelf,
extending from coastal to open ocean regimes as well as in areas
of algal blooms.