Lecture Notes from Previous Ocean-Colour Courses

The following Lecture notes (in pdf format) are from previous courses on ocean-colour and remote sensing.

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  1. Material from Training Course in Ocean Colour: Techniques and Applications held in India (February 2001)

    • Material presented by Dr. Andreas Neumann
      German Aerospace Centre DLR, Germany
      Lecture 1 - Calibration of Ocean-Colour Sensors (871 KB)
      Lecture 2 - Information Content of Ocean Colour Data (206 KB)
      Lecture 3 - Principal Component Conversion (474 KB)
      Lecture 4 - Validation of Ocean Colour Sensors (185 KB)

  2. Material from Remote Sensing of Ocean Colour Course held in Turkey (Sept, 2000)

    • Material presented by Dr. Louisa Watts
      Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada
      Lecture 1 - Primary Production and Related Processes (138 KB)
      Lectures 2 &; 3 - Modelling Primary Production on a Local and Global Scale (272 KB)
      Software Demonstration - Primary Production Software Demonstration (17 KB)

    • Material presented by Dr. Mervyn Lynch
      Curtin University of Technology, Australia
      Lecture - Satellite Orbits / Basic Radiometric Quantities and Definitions (60 KB)

    • Material presented by Dr. Oleg Kopelevich
      P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, Russia
      Lecture 1 - Radiative Transfer in Oceans (944 KB)
      Lecture 2 - Oceanic Optical Properties and Models (1,499 KB)
      Lecture 3 - Bio-optical Algorithms (2,149 KB)

    • Material presented by Dr. Peter Fearns
      Curtin University of Technology, Australia
      Lecture 1 (84 KB), Lecture 2 (113 KB), Lecture 3 (60 KB) - On SeaWiFS Processing using SeaDAS

    • Material presented by Dr. Aysen Yilmaz
      Middle East Technical University, Turkey
      Lecture 1 - Primary production, availability/uptake of nutrients and photo-adaptation of phytoplankton in three interconnected regional seas: Black Sea, Sea of Marmara and Eastern Mediterranean (332 KB).
      Lecture 2 - Notes on Nutrients (49 KB)

    • Material presented by Dr. Lesley Clementson
      CSIRO Marine Research, Australia
      Lecture - Optical measurements, phytoplankton pigments, absorption characteristics, cal/val of ocean colour sensors (447 KB)
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