As I talked about in my last blog, this week I’m attending the Ocean Optics XXII Conference in Portland, Maine in the USA. I arrived last Thursday and spent the weekend at a two day pre-conference meeting entitled ‘Phytoplankton Composition … Continue reading
Tag Archives: phytoplankton
Looking Deeper At Phytoplankton from Space
NASA is currently in the middle of a joint airborne and sea campaign to study the ocean and atmosphere in preparation for developing instruments for future spaceborne missions. The Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) campaign has brought together experts from a … Continue reading
The Science Behind Springwatch
Last Wednesday Pixalytics made it’s TV debut on the BBC2 Springwatch programme, where they showed a video we’d made on phytoplankton blooms. The video was based on NASA MODIS-Aqua daily images. MODIS, or the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, is an optical sensor that’s … Continue reading
Springwatch and GEO-Business Update!
Exciting News! Pixalytics made its television debut last night on BBC2’s Springwatch programme as part of a feature on plankton. We were asked to put together a video from satellite imagery showing the progress of a phytoplankton bloom around European … Continue reading
