Application of Satellite Remote Sensing
on the Detection of Algal Blooms

These lectures are part of APEC MRCWG OMISAR project activities
 

Disc 1
Lecturer    Prof. B. Greg Mitchell 
   2240 Sverdrup Hall 
   9500 Gilman Drive Dept 0218 
   Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD 
   La Jolla, California 92093-0218 
   Phone: 619-534-2687 , 
   Fax  : 619-534-2997 
   bgmitchell@ucsd.edu 
Title of lectures  * Ecophysiology of Harmful Algae Taxa 
   Toxic outbreaks( Harmful Algal Blooms - HAB's )
   Types of harmful algal bloom
   Four Main Types of Toxicity
   Major HAB-related Events in Coastal U.S.
   Stimulation of HABs by unusual climatic conditions
   Environmental factors: Dinoflagellate cyst dynamics in costal waters
   Relative Absorbance standardized at 678mm
   Basic question for future
   What can we do?
Title of lectures * Principles of ocean optics and ocean color algorithm case studies
   Ocean Color: Relationship to absorption and scattering
   Absorption spectrum of various waters over the east coast of U.S.
   Comparison of NASA's global SeaWiFs OC2 and regional CAL-P6 chlorophyll 
        algorithms tuned to 490/555 ratio
   a*p of CalCOFI and Antarctic water
   Discriminating red tide blooms from other phytoplankton
   Red tide index: Rrs(380)/Rrs(412)
   Conclusions
Disc 2
Lecturer Prof. B. Greg Mitchell 
Title of lectures * Ocean optics instrumentation and applications
     Integrated Optical system composing MER, CTD and AC9
   Free-fall system to measure downward solar irradiance( Ed )
   Downward spectral irradiance at a few depths
   Attenuation and transmission of light in the water transmissometers
   Picture of Hobilabs alpha-beta meter
   Bermuda testbed optical mooring
Title of lectures * Measurement of ocean optical properties and data processing
   Profiles of T, S, Lu, Ed, etc. in a downcast
   Sunnary of the BBOP processing of bio-optical vertial profiles
   Data bank for marine optical data
   Absorption vs. pigment concentration
   Integrating optical and oceanographic instruments
Disc 3
Disc 4
Lecturer    Dr. Mati Kahru 
   2208 Sverdrup Hall
   Scripps Institution of Oceanography 
   University of California, San Diego 
   La Jolla, CA 92093-0218, USA 
   Phone   : (+1) 858-534-8947
   FAX     : (+1) 858-822-0562 
   mkahru@ucsd.edu 
Title of lectures * Basics of Image Analysis and Applications to Remote Sensing of Algal Blooms, 1
  * Basics of Image Analysis and Applications to Remote Sensing of Algal Blooms, 2
     Principles of digital imaging
   Basic operations on images
   Image file formats
   Getting satellite data
   SeaWiFS Products
   SeaDAS - SeaWiFS Data Analysis System
   Algorithms for detecting Red Tides
   Case study

 
Overseer of OMISAR Project Contractor of OMISAR Project   Technical Staff Technical Staff
    Dr. Gwo-Dong Roam 
    Director General
    Bureau of Water Quality Protection 
    Environmental Protection 
    Administration, Chinese Taipei 
     gdroam@adm.epa.gov.tw 
   Dr. Cho-Teng Liu
   Institute of Oceanography
   National Taiwan University
   ctliu@ccms.ntu.edu.tw
   Ms. Ray-jen Liu 
   Global Change Research Center 
   National Taiwan University 
  Mr. Tseng, Ming-Che 
   Institute of Oceanography
   National Taiwan University