SMS 598: Calibration and Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing, 8 July - 2 August, 2013  


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Morning - 0800

 

Afternoon - 1330

Week 1: Introduction & IOPs. Measurements of the week: absorption, scattering, attenuation, and fluorescence

July 08 (Mon)

 

Welcome to Maine and the Darling Center

Logistics and overview, Introductions

Introduction

Lecture 1: Light and Radiometry (CM)

Lecture 2: Overview of light in water (CR)

 

Lab 1: Playing with light

July 09 (Tue)

 

Lecture 3: Absorption physics; absorption spectra for water, CDOM, NAP, phytoplankton, etc (CR)

Lecture 4: Phytoplankton -  pigments, photo-adaptation, and taxonomic classification (MJP)

 

Lab 2: Absorption by dissolved material (ac-9 / ac-s and spectrophotometer). Beers Law in a tank

Material Safety Data Sheets

July 10 (Wed)

 

Lab report: CDOM lab synthesis and summary

Lecture 5: What is scattering and how is it measured (EB)

Lecture 6: The VSF and Models for Scattering (CM)

 

 Lab 3: Absorption by particulate material (ac-9 and ac-s and spectrophotometer)

 

July 11 (Thu)

 

Lab report: Particulate absorption lab synthesis and summary

Lecture 7: Beam attenuation (EB)

Lecture 8: POC and other proxies-optical properties for phytoplankton and community composition (MJP)

 

Lab 4: Scattering by particulate material (b and bb)

July 12 (Fri)

 

Lab report: Temperature corrections ac-9, ac-s

Lecture 9: Inelastic scattering Raman CaCO3 & other minerals, CDOM (KV)

Lecture 10: Fluorescence by phytoplankton pigments (MJP)

 

 

Lab 5: Fluorescence of CDOM and chlorophyll

July 13 (Sat)

 

 Lab report: Scattering lab synthesis and summary

Synthesis of first week: critique process of learning, Q&A on any topic; tie up loose ends (staff)

Student U tube project (building on 2011 portfolio)

Chlorophyll fluorescence in-class exercise: with answers

 

No lab in afternoon

BBQ at DMC

July 14 (Sun)

 

 

 

 

Week 2. Foci: Radiometric quantities and AOPs

July 15 (Mon)

 

Lab report: Fluorescence report

Lecture 11: Introduction to AOPs (will cover R, Rrs, Ks, mubars); The BRDF and Lambertian Surfaces (CM)

Lecture 12: Radiometric quantities and their measurement (KV)

 

Lab 6: Radiometric measurements: in-water and above-water (KV)

July 16 (Tue)

 

Lab report: Synthesis and summary of radiometry field data and above-water reflectance from dock

Lecture 13: Link between particle properties (size, packaging, composition, shape, internal structure) and IOPs (EB)

Lecture 14: Polarization (KV)

 

Lab 7: Mie theory and modeling (EB)

July 17 (Wed)

 

Lab report: Continued synthesis of radiometry lab

Lecture 15: The Radiative Transfer Equation; introduction to HydroLight (CM)

Lecture 16: Barney Balch, Guest Lecture

 

Lab 8: HydroLight Lab 1: Guided Simulations (simple simulations) (CM)

HydroLight Lab 1 Handout

July 18 (Thu)

 

Lab report: Brief report from HydroLight Lab 1

Brief report on topics selected for Student Projects, individual or small group projects

Lecture 17: Primary production; optical and remote sensing models (MJP)

Lecture 18: Closure and HydroLight Advanced Features (CM)

 

Lab 9 Handout: HydroLight Lab 2: Guided Simulations (advanced simulations) (CM)

July 19 (Fri)

 

Lab report: Report from HydroLight Lab II

Lecture 19: Rrs inversion methods a: statistical methods to obtain (chl) and/or IOPs (ratio, Neural Network, CM)

Lecture 20: Rrs inversion methods b: semi-analytical models to obtain IOPs (CR)

Dinner in Whitefield Maine at MJPs house

 

Lab 10: Semi analytical Rrs inversion lab (CR)

July 20 (Sat)

 

 

 

 

July 21 (Sun)

 

 

 

 

Week 3: Field measurements and models

July 22 (Mon)

 

Group A: R/V Ira C (RZ, EB)

Group B: SeaDAS in lab (JW)

July 23 (Tue)

 

Lecture 21: Uncertainty analysis and propagation of error (EB)

Lecture 22: Introduction to ocean color satellite remote sensing; basic atmospheric corrections for remote sensing; black pixel assumption and adjacency effect (JW)

 

AOP handout : Analysis of Monday cruise data; work on projects

July 24 (Wed)

 

Group B: R/V Ira C (RZ, EB)

Group A: SeaDAS in lab (JW)

July 25 (Thu)

 

Lab report: Preliminary reports on analysis of radiometry and IOPs

Lecture 23: In situ data satellite - QA/QC requirements, vicarious calibration, optical weighting for validation and algorithm development, how data are used in satellite processing system (JW)

Lecture 24: Estimating uncertainties of inversion products. Effect of non-elastic scattering on Rrs. (EB)

 

 

IOP handout : Analysis of cruise data; work on projects

July 26 (Fri)

 

Lab report: Updates on Student Projects

Lab report: Updates on analysis of radiometry and IOPs

Ken Voss f/Q chalk talk

Continued data analysis of radiometry and IOPs

Exploration of optical phenomena (instructors)

 

 

Visibility, Black Target transmissometer, Secchi Disk (RZ)

Arduino boards lab

Lobster Dinner

July 27 (Sat)

 

 

 

 

July 28 (Sun)

 

 

 

 

Week 4: Synthesis

July 29 (Mon)

 

Lab report: Updates on analysis of radiometry and IOPs

Lecture 25: PFT and PSD inversions from Rrs (JW)

Blackboard photo : Design of field campaigns and other sampling strategies (traditional ship, moorings, in-line, autonomous vehicles and drifting platforms), including calibration and cross calibration (MJP & EB)

 

Instrumental closure using cruise data (working in small groups with instructors)

July 30 (Tue)

 

Lab report: Field data and closure

Lecture 27: Monte Carlo (CM)

Lecture 28: Sources of variability in mass-specific attenuation coefficients (Paul Hill)

 

Lab : Monte Carlo (EB)

Data processing, submission to SeaBASS, videos, etc.

July 31 (Wed)

 

Lecture 29: QA/QC (Steve Ackleson)

 

Data processing, submission to SeaBASS, videos, etc.

Aug 1 (Thu)

 

Lecture 30: Rrs inversion methods for shallow-water remote sensing (spectrum matching methods of Lee, Mobley, and others)

 

Data processing, submission to SeaBASS, videos, etc.

Aug 2 (Fri)

 

Presentations

 

Links to Final Projects:

AC-S

Average cosine

Backscattering

Fluorescence

LISST

Radiometry  

Aug 3 (Sat)

 

Vacate room by 10:00am