Applications of PACE hyperspectral ocean color data for aquaculture and fisheries management

Author

Ryan Vandermeulen, Veronica Lance, Clete Otoshi, Ken Riley, Michelle Tomlinson, and Rebecca Trinh; Python/R code by Elizabeth Holmes

Published

2025-04-01T00:00

This is a condensed version of NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-253.

PACE Ocean products tell you about:

WHAT IS THE COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Rrs)
WHAT/WHO IS THERE (phytoplankton composition, SPM)
HOW MUCH OF IT IS THERE (chlorophyll concentration, particulate/phytoplankton carbon etc.)
ARE THEY SHINY/COLORFUL??? (IOPs)
HOW MUCH LIGHT IS THERE (PAR/Kd)
WHAT ARE THEY DOING (Primary productivity)
HOW ARE THEY DOING (Fluorescence Line Height)

Tech Memo {sec-tech-memo}

Vandermeulen, Ryan, Veronica Lance, Clete Otoshi, Ken Riley, Michelle Tomlinson, and Rebecca Trinh. 2025. Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite data for aquaculture and fisheries management. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-253, 36p. PDF

Copies of this report may be obtained from: https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/tech-memos/