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Synergy between Low Earth Orbit (LEO)—MODIS and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO)—GOES Sensors for Sargassum Monitoring in the Atlantic Ocean by Minghelli, Audrey (author);Chevalier, Cristele (author);Descloitres, Jacques (author);Berline, Léo (author);Blanc, Philippe (author);Chami, Malik (author) is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Since 2011, massive stranding of the brown algae Sargassum has regularly affected the coastal waters of the West Caribbean, Brazil, and West Africa, leading to heavy environmental and socio-economic impacts. Ocean color remote sensing observations as performed by sun-synchronous satellite sensors such as MODIS (NASA), MERIS (ESA), or OLCI (ESA/Copernicus) are used to provide quantitative assessments of Sargassum coverage through the calculation of indices as the Alternative Floating Algae Index (AFAI). Sun-synchronous sensors usually provide at best one daytime observation per day of a given oceanic area. However, such a daily temporal revisit rate is not fully satisfactory to monitor the dynamics of Sargassum aggregation due to their potentially significant drift over the course of the day as a result of oceanic currents and sea surface wind stress. In addition, the sun glint and the presence of clouds limit the use of low earth orbit observations, especially in tropical zones. The high frequency sampling provided by geostationary sensors can be a relevant alternative approach in synergy with ocean color sun-synchronous sensors to increase the temporal resolution of the observatio

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Author
Minghelli, Audrey (author);Chevalier, Cristele (author);Descloitres, Jacques (author);Berline, Léo (author);Blanc, Philippe (author);Chami, Malik (author)
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021
Language
EN
Field
Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

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