TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADIO ENGINEERING - 2009 Vol. 68,
No 16 		 

 

 

 

Regional Analytical Algorithm for Seawater Inherent Optical Properties Retrieving Using Reflectance Factors

E.N. Êîrchemkina and E.B. Shybanov
Marine Hydrophysics Institute, NAS of Ukraine, 2, Kapitanska St., 99011 Sevastopol, Ukraine

Abstract
The applied method consists of solving of the inverse problem of marine bio-optics based on the sea reflectance spectrum. Non-standard parameterization of seawater optical properties is realized in the iterative algorithm. The condition of reflectance constancy at the wavelength of 400 nm is shown to stabilize the algorithm processing. Maps of chlorophyll concentration distribution are plotted for the South Coast of Crimea. The obtained concentration values are typical for Black Sea coastal regions in summer.

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