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Detection of Phytoplankton Blooms in the Turbid Coastal Waters Using Satellite-Derived Fluorescence Line Height off Kakinada Coast

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Fluorescence line height (FLH) is a relative measure of the amount of radiance leaving the sea surface in the chlorophyll fluorescence emission band. Satellite-derived FLH images provide information about the surface chlorophyll distribution which in turn can be used for monitoring surface phytoplankton blooms in coastal waters. The present study aims at observing a phytoplankton bloom in the Kakinada coastal waters along the east coast of India using nFLH product of MODIS-A. This quasi-permanent bloom could not be precisely observed using chlorophyll concentration in the turbid coastal waters due to the presence of other optically active constituents; hence, chlorophyll fluoresce is used to study the bloom phenomenon from nFLH product of MODIS. The analysis has been carried out by analysing the spectral variability using both in situ and satellite Rrs spectra over the bloom and non-bloom waters. Comparative study between in situ chlorophyll with satellite-derived FLH showed a good correlation with an R2 of 0.43. The bloom phenomenon observed/assessed from the MODIS nFLH data showed > 0.25 W m−2 sr−1 μm in the bloom-dominated pixels. This proves that the satellite-derived nFLH can also be used as an indicator in detecting the phytoplankton blooms and also as one of the important parameters for the ocean colour applications in case-II waters.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr. Shantanu Choudhury, Director, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), and Dr. M. V. R. Sesha Sai, Deputy Director, Earth and Climate Science Area (ECSA). Thanks are also due to all the participants of the cruise and their respective collaborative support institutions for extending their support to carry out the experiments. This work is supported under NICES programme. We thank the anonymous reviewers for providing comments that helped to improve the quality of the original manuscript.

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  1. Ocean Science Group (OSG), Earth and Climate Science Area (ECSA), National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC), ISRO, Hyderabad, India

    Y. Umamaheswara Rao, P. V. Nagamani, N. K. Baranval, T. D. V. Prasada Rao & S. B. Choudury

  2. Department of Geophysics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

    P. Rama Rao

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Umamaheswara Rao, Y., Nagamani, P.V., Baranval, N.K. et al. Detection of Phytoplankton Blooms in the Turbid Coastal Waters Using Satellite-Derived Fluorescence Line Height off Kakinada Coast. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 47, 1857–1864 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-019-01022-5

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