My research discipline is in ocean optics and ocean color remote sensing. It covers three aspects to: understand how the light field changes in a natural environment (radiative transfer); develop effective tools that use the light information to retrieve important environmental properties (remote sensing); use the remotely sensed products (either from airborne or space borne sensors) to study the ocean/Earth system. My ongoing and past efforts have been focused on the development of remote sensing algorithms that can be applied to both oceanic and coastal environments. In addition, we have also conducted studies on field measurement techniques, estimation of primary production, and the dynamics of biogeochemical properties of waters in the South Pacific gyre.
Articles
Time Series of Bio-Optical Properties in a Subtropical Gyre: Implications for the Evaluation of Interannual Trends of Biogeochemical Properties (with Shaoling Shang, Chuanmin Hu, Marlon Lewis, Robert Arnone, Yonghong Li, and Bertrand Lubac), Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans (2010)
With a validated Quasi-Analytical Algorithm, an 11 year (1998-2008) monthly time series of the primary...
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Observations of Cyanobacteria Blooms in Taihu Lake, China (with Chuanmin Hu, Zhongping Lee, Ronghua Ma, Kun Yu, Daqiu Li, and Shaoling Shang), Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans (2010)
A novel approach was used with data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to...
Euphotic Zone Depth: Its Derivation and Implication to Ocean-Color Remote Sensing (with Alan Weidemann, John Kindle, Robert Arnone, Kendall L. Carder, and Curtiss Davis), Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans (2007)
Euphotic zone depth, z(1%), reflects the depth where photosynthetic available radiation ( PAR) is 1%...
Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient of Downwelling Irradiance: An Evaluation of Remote Sensing Methods (with M. Darecki, Kendall L. Carder, C. O. Davis, D. Stramski, and W. J. Rhea), Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans (2005)
The propagation of downwelling irradiance at wavelength λ from surface to a depth (z) in...
Properties of the Water Column and Bottom Derived from Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) Data (with Kendall L. Carder, R. F. Chen, and T. G. Peacock), Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans (2001)
Using Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data as an example, we show in this...