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Calibration and Validation for Ocean Color Remote
Sensing
This is an intensive three-week,
cross-disciplinary, graduate-level course in optical oceanography
and ocean color remote sensing. The major theme of this year’s
course is vicarious calibration of satellite-based ocean color
radiometers using Earth-based measurements and the use of in-situ
optical sensors for validation of products derived from ocean
color remote sensing. The course will provide students with a
fundamental knowledge of ocean optics and optical sensor
technology that will enable them to make quality measurements, be
able to assess the uncertainties associated with the measurements,
and compare the resulting data with remotely sensed ocean color
measurements and products derived from them. The course is
sponsored by NASA and the University of Maine, with the goal of
preparing a new generation of oceanographers trained in the use of
optics to study the oceans.
Course elements include:
lectures on the basic theory of
the light interaction with matter in aquatic environments,
inversions of ocean color remote sensing, sensor design and
function, and ocean biogeochemistry;
laboratory training in use of
optical instrumentation and radiative transfer software;
field sampling of optical and
biogeochemical variables in the environmentally diverse waters of
coastal Maine;
analysis of optical and
biogeochemical data sets; and
collaborative student projects.
Instructors:
Emmanuel Boss (University of
Maine)
Curtis Mobley (Sequoia
Scientific, Inc.)
Mary Jane Perry (University of
Maine)
Collin Roesler (Bowdoin
College)
Ken Voss (University of Miami)
Jeremy Werdell (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Teaching Assistant:
Course Syllabus
Textbooks
and References
Ocean Optics
Links
Course
FTP Root Directory
At and around
the Darling Marine
Center:
Directions
to the Darling Marine Center
Map
of the Darling Marine Center
Campus
Tide
charts for Walpole, ME
Darling
Center chlorophyll and temperature time series
Housing and Meals:
Keys will be posted on the
Visiting Scientists check-in board in front of the Horse
Barn.
Dormitories are located in the
Brooke Hall conference center on lower campus.
Dorm rooms will be ready for
Sunday (7/10) arrivals (dinner: self-serve sandwiches available
in Brooke Hall refrigerator).
Dorm room must be vacated by
noon on Saturday, July 30.
Breakfast at 7:30 AM, lunch at 12 noon and dinner at 6 PM.
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