Oceanic Primary Production: Estimation by Remote Sensing at Local and Regional Scales

• DOI: 10.1126/science.241.4873.1613
• Publication Date: 2006-10-05T21:21:15Z
• Authors: Trevor Platt; Shubha Sathyendra...
• Keywords: Ocean color; Primary (astronomy)

Satellites provide the only avenue by which marine primary production can be studied at ocean-basin scales. With maps of chlorophyll distribution derived from remotely sensed data on ocean color as input, deduction a suitable algorithm for is problem in applied plant physiology. An proposed that combines spectral and angular model submarine light with response algal photosynthesis. To apply large horizontal scale, dynamic biogeography needed physiological rate parameters biological structure water column. Fieldwork to obtain this type should undertaken so use satellite modern oceanography may optimized.