Collaborative Investigations of Shallow Water Optics Problems
Abstract
A combination of HydroLight and Monte Carlo numerical modeling was used to quantify the effects of water column optical properties, bottom morphology, bottom material reflectances, bottom bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs), and external environmental conditions on remote-sensing reflectances in optically shallow waters. It was found that typical variability in these quantities generally causes no more than 10% error in the recovery of bathymetry from hyperspectral remote sensing reflectances. Other research performed under this contract included investigations of radiometer self shading, underwater visibility, analytical modeling of remote sensing reflectances in both deep and shallow Case 2 waters, semianalytical methods for inversion of the radiative transfer equation, and the use of neural networks and regression for inversion of ocean color spectra. Reprints of five publications are included in this report.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA430056
Entities
People
- Curtis D. Mobley