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The Airborne Ocean Color Imager - System description and image processingThe Airborne Ocean Color Imager was developed as an aircraft instrument to simulate the spectral and radiometric characteristics of the next generation of satellite ocean color instrumentation. Data processing programs have been developed as extensions of the Coastal Zone Color Scanner algorithms for atmospheric correction and bio-optical output products. The latter include several bio-optical algorithms for estimating phytoplankton pigment concentration, as well as one for the diffuse attenuation coefficient of the water. Additional programs have been developed to geolocate these products and remap them into a georeferenced data base, using data from the aircraft's inertial navigation system. Examples illustrate the sequential data products generated by the processing system, using data from flightlines near the mouth of the Mississippi River: from raw data to atmospherically corrected data, to bio-optical data, to geolocated data, and, finally, to georeferenced data.
Document ID
19930066372
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Wrigley, Robert C.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Slye, Robert E.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Klooster, Steven A.
(TGS Technology, Inc.; NASA, Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Freedman, Richard S.
(Sterling Federal Systems, Inc.; NASA, Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Carle, Mark
(Spectro Scan, Inc. Coral Gables, FL, United States)
Mcgregor, Lloyd F.
(Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.; NASA, Stennis Space Center Bay Saint Louis, MS, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Imaging Science and Technology
Volume: 36
Issue: 5
ISSN: 8750-9237
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Accession Number
93A50369
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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