LIDAR FLUOROSENSOR FOR CONTINUOUS AND RANGE RESOLVED REMOTE MONITORING OF PHYTOPLANKTON AND SEA WATER QUALITY

摘要

A range integrated lidar fluorosensor participated to the Oceanographic campaign within the XIII Italian Antarctic Expedition of the Research Vessel Italica (Nov.'97 to Jan'98), in which sea water quality parameters (Phytoplankton concentration, yellow matter, turbidity and biomass productivity) were remotely monitored, both across the western Ross Sea and through the entire route from Antarctica to New Zealand. Distributions of the monitored quantities have been reported on thematic maps. A new lidar fluorosensor has been designed to remotely detect range resolved seawater features and will be tested during the forthcoming XV Antarctic mission (Jan. to Feb. 2000).