Publications by authors named "Joel P Scott"
Lakes and other surface fresh waterbodies provide drinking water, recreational and economic opportunities, food, and other critical support for humans, aquatic life, and ecosystem health. Lakes are also productive ecosystems that provide habitats and influence global cycles. Chlorophyll concentration provides a common metric of water quality, and is frequently used as a proxy for lake trophic state.
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- - In vivo chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) is a cost-effective method for estimating phytoplankton biomass in remote ocean areas where traditional sampling methods are limited.
- - To achieve accurate ChlF measurements, it's necessary to correct for various biases like biofouling and non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), which can affect the data quality.
- - A Saildrone deployed in 2018 successfully measured ChlF and other ocean parameters, and after bias corrections, showed improved alignment with satellite data, indicating its potential for enhancing ocean monitoring efforts.
Many ocean color data applications leverage global spatially composited level-3 (L3) satellite data because of their regular Earth-grid frame of reference. However, ocean color satellite retrieval performance is routinely evaluated on level-2 (L2) data at the native satellite swath resolution and geometries. This study assesses how accurately binned and gridded L3 data represent L2 satellite data products via satellite-to-in situ match-up activities.
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