Sensing and Mapping the Marine Environment 2

Tuesday 5^th April 2005

The one-day symposium will bring together the special interests of the Institute of Physics, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc) and Challenger Society for Marine Science (CSMS) through the IOP Optics Group (Dr Alex Cunningham, University of Strathclyde) and RSPSoc/CSMS jointly affiliated ocean colour SIG (Dr Samantha Lavender, University of Plymouth).

Topics of interest include:

· Marine remote sensing: primarily ocean colour.

· Video imagery: above and below the water.

· Marine optics.

· Sensor integration and data visualisation.

The symposium is being held at Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1.

See http://about.iop.org/IOP/location.html for details on how to get there.

Call for papers

You are invited to submit abstracts for both seminar and poster presentations. Abstracts, not exceeding 300 words, should be submitted to Dr Samantha Lavender by email (S.Lavender@plymouth.ac.uk) or by post (SEOES, PSQA504, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK). The abstract should cover the main points of the paper, including a summary of key research findings.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:	Tuesday 01 February 2005
Notification of acceptance of papers:	Tuesday 01 March 2005
Deadline for registration:	Monday 28 March 2005
One day symposium:	Tuesday 05 April 2005

For registration form see sensemap2-call.pdf

Book of abstracts: SMap05-abstracts.pdf

Schedule

*Time*	*Event*	*Comments*
09:30
09:50	Welcome
10:00	Paper 1	Optical Properties of Tripton: A Review. D.G.Bowers [PDF of presentation]
10:20	Paper 2	Inherent Optical Properties and Water Quality Parameters of the Irish Sea. David McKee
10:40	Paper 3	Use of Ferries to monitor water quality in the Irish Sea. Gay Mitchelson-Jacob
11:00	Tea/Coffee
11:20	Paper 4	Apparent and inherent optical properties of turbid estuarine waters: Measurements, modelling and application to remote sensing. David Doxaran
11:40	Paper 5	Modelling particulate backscattering probability in coastal waters of Plymouth. R C Nagur Cherukuru
12:00	Paper 6	Precision of spectral in-situ backscatter coefficient measurements to determine particle backscattering slope. Victor Martinez-Vicente
12:20	Lunch
13:20	Paper 7	Regional variation in the inherent optical properties of the North Sea: Implications for Ocean Colour Algorithms. Gavin Tilstone [Presentation not available]
13:40	Paper 8	Solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence as a tool for detecting phytoplankton populations in oceanic waters. L. Hay
14:00	Paper 9	Seasonal variability of surface chlorophyll concentrations in the NW African upwelling region. Yaswant Pradhan [PDF of presentation]
14:20	Paper 10	Evaluating the use of novel remote observations and spatial data analysis to improve the skill of an ocean forecasting system for the central Mediterranean Sea. Charles Galdies
14.40	Tea/Coffee
15:00	Paper 11	Atmospheric correction of ocean colour imagery: Is it worth using in situ aerosol measurements to improve retrievals? Tim J Smyth [Presentation not available]
15:20	Paper 12	MODIS 500m ocean colour data through exploiting spectral and spatial correlation. J. D. Shutler [Presentation not available]
15:40	Paper 13	ASAR image handling within the COASTCHART project. Matthew Stuttard [PDF of presentation]
16:00	Summary
16:30	End

Poster:

- Recent developments at RSDAS. Peter Miller