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By hirashima

Monitoring and assessment of water quality by ocean color remote sensing

Lecture slides ・Introduction to satellite biological oceanography and ocean color remote sensing
・Introduction to eutrophication and Harmful algal blooms (HABS)
Setting up environment ・Setting up environment to access NOWPAP CAERAC Webinar site
Hands on materials ・Application of ocean color products in eutrophication assessment
・Evaluation of satellite data with in-situ observations

・Time-series analysis

i) Satellite data search and download methods
ii) Temporal composites analysis
iii) Image animations

・Time-series analysis

i) Extract point/region of interest
ii) Analysis of annual min/max
iii) Analysis of trend in time-series

Mapping seagrass by optical sensors

Lecture slides ・Seagrass beds and its ground truthing
・Demonstration of Seagrass Mapper
・Theory of detecting seagrass by remote sensing and basics of image classifications and accuracy assessment
Hands on materials ・Hands on exercise for uploading training data set using Seagrass Trainer
・Preparation of training data sets from ground truth
・Classification of satellite images and accuracy assessment
Manuals ・Seagrass Mapper User’s Manual (ver1.0)
・Seagrass Trainer User’s Manual (ver1.0)
・Appendix (ver1.0) (Seagrass Mapper/Seagrass Trainer)