QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS FOR OCEAN OBSERVATIONS USING HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA PROVIDED FROM A MULTI- SENSOR SYSTEM PACKAGE

A feasibility study is presented which examined the application of a distributed sensor system package for ocean observations focusing the attention on the matchup of remotely sensed derived reflectances with in situ data. To verify the platform integration and data reliability for maritime missions, a field exercise was performed by NATO Research Centre (NURC) to build sensor integration, performance evaluation and data processing refinement. Our system incorporates an aircraft, satellites (Geo-Eye1, MODIS and MERIS) as well as a NATO research vessel ( N/RV Alliance ) that was used to perform both radiometric and bio-optical in situ measurements that were collected from 13 th to 26 th