Monitoring of Oil Films Louisiana Shelf The dark slicks/patches are oil films from oil seeps on the...
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Monitoring of Oil Films
Louisiana Shelf
The dark slicks/patches are oil films from oil seeps on the ocean floor, and they disappear in a couple of days due to various processes.
GEO-CAPE can better monitor these oil films, quantify their amount and fate.
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Blooms of the blue-green algae Blooms of the blue-green algae or cyanobacterium, or cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium spp.Trichodesmium spp., occur , occur every year on the west Florida every year on the west Florida Shelf. This marine organism can Shelf. This marine organism can adjust its buoyancy and adjust its buoyancy and vertically migrate. vertically migrate.
GEO-CAPE can provided GEO-CAPE can provided unprecedented capability to unprecedented capability to stare at the vertical migration of stare at the vertical migration of Trichodesmium Trichodesmium and other toxic and other toxic algae for a better understanding algae for a better understanding of bloom dynamics. of bloom dynamics.
Satellite (MODIS) imageAug. 30, 2005, 16:47 GMT
Satellite (MODIS) imageAug. 27, 2005, 19:26 GMT
470 km2 (120000 acres) under water
Before Katrina
After Katrina
GEO-CAPE can provide
timely information on flooding
GEO-CAPE can see estuaries more clearly
SeaWiFS, 10/31/2000SeaWiFS, 10/31/200017:57 GMT, 1-km17:57 GMT, 1-km
MODIS, 11/1/2000MODIS, 11/1/200016:30 GMT, 250-m16:30 GMT, 250-m