Oceans – Geo Applications

Oceans Product Team

There are numerous ocean applications that can be achieved with measurements of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and ocean colour including physical processes such as tides, monitoring and forecasting of flood plumes and algal blooms, data assimilation of biological phenomena, and water quality and river plume monitoring.

Target Products/Applications

Water-leaving Radiance

– Remote sensing reflectance

Dependencies: Validation data, cloud masking algorithm, glint masking algorithm, glint correction algorithm, surface pressure map, ozone map

Potential end users: GBRMPA BoM CSIRO JCU JFA JCG

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
Artificial Neural Network	CSIRO (4), JCU (5)	0.3 FTE	Yes
Iterative coupled atmosphere-ocean inversion model	CU (1)	TBD	No
Gordon and Wang algorithm	JAXA/EORC (3)	0.1 FTE	Yes

Total Suspended Matter and IOPs

Dependencies: Remote Sensing Reflectance, validation data

Potential end users: GBRMPA, BoM, CSIRO, JCU, JFA, JCG

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
Artificial Neural Network	CSIRO (4), JCU (5)	0.3 FTE	Yes
Empirical Semi-analytical	CU (1)	TBD	No
Empirical IOP model	JAXA/EORC (3)	0.1 FTE	Yes (partially)

Chlorophyll-a

Dependencies: Remote sensing reflectance, validation data

Potential end users: GBRMPA, BoM, CSIRO, JCU, JFA, JCG

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
Artificial Neural Network	CSIRO (4), JCU (5)	0.3 FTE	Yes
Empirical Semi-analytical	CU (1)	TBD	No
Empirical equation or IOP model	JAXA/EORC (3)	0.1 FTE	Yes

Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient for Downward Irradiance

Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient for Downward Irradiance (Kd)

Dependencies: Remote sensing reflectance, validation data

Potential end users: TBD

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
Empirical, Semi-analytical	CU (1)	TBD	No

Particulate Backscattering Coefficient (510nm)

Particulate Backscattering Coefficient at 510 nm

Dependencies: Remote sensing reflectance, Chlorophyll-a, lookup tables for BRDF coefficients from radiative transfer

Potential end users: TBD

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
Semi-analytical (tentative)	CU (1)	TBD	No

Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR)

Dependencies: Path radiance and transmittances from the atmospheric correction, remote sensing reflectance, a model of clear-sky solar irradiance at surface

Potential end users: TBD

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
Tentative (essentially adapting existing multispectral algorithms)	CU (1)	TBD	No

Flood Plume Mapping

Dependencies: Validation data

Potential end users: GBRMPA

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
TBD via Total Suspended Matter product	CSIRO (4), JCU (5)	TBD	No

Algal Bloom Detection

Dependencies: Validation data

Potential end users: GBRMPA

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
TBD via TOA radiance product	CSIRO (4), JCU (5)	TBD	No

True-colour Imagery

– Rayleigh corrected and colour enhanced

Dependencies: None

Potential end users: GBRMPA, BoM, CSIRO, JCU, DPaW

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
Semi-analytical	CU (1)	Not long at all – depends mainly on data format	No

Sea Surface Temperature

Dependencies: TBD

Potential end users: TBD

Algorithm Type	Developing Institution	Estimated Resources	Currently Funded
TBD	BoM (2)	TBD	TBD

Coordination Leads

Hiroshi Murakami

JAXA

Thomas Schroeder

CSIRO

Product & Advisory Leads

(1) David Antoine (Curtin University)
(2) Leon Majewski (BoM)
(3) Hiroshi Murakami (JAXA)
(4) Thomas Schroeder (CSIRO)
(5) Larissa Valerio (JCU)
(6) Peter Fearns (Curtin University)