Quantification of Margalefidinium polykrikoides Blooms by Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery

    Margalefidinium polykrikoides is a major red tide species and can harm Marine life by killing fish in aquaculture tanks through gill blockages at high cell abundance.  To minimize the damage caused by red tides, their detailed spatial distribution must be understood with extreme accuracy.  Airborne hyperspectral imaging can provide a lot of information about the optical characteristics of red tide species and help quantify red tide cell abundance.  GFR indices were calculated from green (524 and 583 nm) and fluorescent (666 and 698 nm) bands and converted into red tide cell abundance using a second-order polynomial regression model.
HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER MODELS SELECTION GUIDE:  
     Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing System (ATH9010)
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