Vertical profiles of marine particulates: a step towards global scale comparisons using an Autonomous Visual Plankton Recorder
2014
Lindsay, Dhugal | Yamaguchi, Atsushi | Grossmann, Mary M. | Nishikawa, Jun | Sabatés, Ana | Fuentes, Veronica | Hall, Mike | Keisuke, Sunahara | Yamamoto, Hiroyuki
8 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Show more [+] Less [-]An Autonomous Visual Plankton Recorder (AVPR) was used to record colour in situ images of plankton and other marine particulates at several oligotrophic stations around the world, including a northern hemisphere subtropical open ocean, a southern hemisphere tropical marginal sea, a northern hemisphere subtropical marginal sea, and a polar open ocean. Quantitative analyses and comparisons of particle concentrations, sizes and vertical profiles were possible after identification of optimal image enhancement settings and employment of a specially-developed macro routine in the off-the-shelf image analysis software Image Pro Plus. Marine particulate profiles, their relationships to oceanographic parameters and water mass structure, and the resolution-dependent limitations of the system are introduced and discussed
Show more [+] Less [-]This work was partially funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI, grant number 24248032, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas TAIGA (20109003), and JST grant CREST, the fund for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research by the AORI, UT.
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