Presentation Abstract
A complete set of MERIS CoastColour data products (2002 to 2012) were developed for the greater Salish Sea, including Puget Sound, Strait of Georgia, and the continental shelf/slope off Washington and Vancouver Island, BC. These data were processed by Integral Consulting Inc. for the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project and is being made available to the regional research community for any number of applications. The dataset includes both nearshore and offshore processed satellite data products at 300 m resolution for over 10 years (3 day revisit). Data products highlight seasonal water quality trends in the Salish Sea and show how events, such as algal blooms, have wide reaching effects across multiple ecosystems. It also provides a decade’s worth of baseline conditions that can be compared with future remote sensing data and incorporated into modelling projects. Data products include (1) temporal composites (monthly, seasonally, and yearly) of processed ocean color data products (e.g., chlorophyll a concentration, turbidity, and colored dissolved organic matter concentration, remote sensing reflectance, etc.); (2) extracted time series of select ocean color data products; (3) time series derived from available in situ data sets that can be used to corroborate satellite-derive ecosystem indicators.
Session Title
Posters: Species & Food Webs
Keywords
Long-term Monitoring, Satellite, Dataset
Conference Track
SSE18: Posters
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2018 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE18-111
Start Date
5-4-2018 11:30 AM
End Date
5-4-2018 1:30 PM
Type of Presentation
Poster
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events); posters
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Ocean color--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Ocean temperature--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Oceanography--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)--Remote sensing; Oceanography--Research--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Oceanography--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)--Data processing; Remote-sensing images--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Marine biology--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Rights
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Included in
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Satellite-derived ecosystem indicators: a retrospective analysis of high resolution ocean color and sea surface temperature products in the Salish Sea
A complete set of MERIS CoastColour data products (2002 to 2012) were developed for the greater Salish Sea, including Puget Sound, Strait of Georgia, and the continental shelf/slope off Washington and Vancouver Island, BC. These data were processed by Integral Consulting Inc. for the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project and is being made available to the regional research community for any number of applications. The dataset includes both nearshore and offshore processed satellite data products at 300 m resolution for over 10 years (3 day revisit). Data products highlight seasonal water quality trends in the Salish Sea and show how events, such as algal blooms, have wide reaching effects across multiple ecosystems. It also provides a decade’s worth of baseline conditions that can be compared with future remote sensing data and incorporated into modelling projects. Data products include (1) temporal composites (monthly, seasonally, and yearly) of processed ocean color data products (e.g., chlorophyll a concentration, turbidity, and colored dissolved organic matter concentration, remote sensing reflectance, etc.); (2) extracted time series of select ocean color data products; (3) time series derived from available in situ data sets that can be used to corroborate satellite-derive ecosystem indicators.
