COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MARINE BIO-OPTICS AND REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN COLOR

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 5014 MARINE BIO-OPTICS AND REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN COLOR ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ATILLA HÜSNÜ ERONAT

Offered to

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

Bio-optical properties of marine waters will be studied. Major focus is on basic principles of visible-band ocean remote sensing and its application to determining phytoplankton pigment and production at regional to global scales.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will learn the basics of marine bio-optics and remote sensing.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 INTRODUCTION
2 INTRODUCTORY THEORY
3 INHERENT AND APPARENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF NATURAL WATERS
4 INHERENT AND APPARENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF NATURAL WATERS
5 OCEAN-COLOR MODELS FOR DEEP WATERS
6 OCEAN-COLOR MODELS FOR DEEP WATERS
7 ISSUES RELATED TO ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION
8 ESTIMATION OF WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS
9 PHYTOPLANKTON PRIMARY PRODUCTION FROM ESTIMATES OF AQUATIC CHLOROPHYLL
10 MIDTERM EXAM
11 PRACTICAL WORK: ANALYSING SATELLITE DATA
12 PRACTICAL WORK: ANALYSING SATELLITE DATA
13 PRACTICAL WORK: ANALYSING SATELLITE DATA
14 PRACTICAL WORK: ANALYSING SATELLITE DATA

Recomended or Required Reading

TEXTBOOK : Bukata R.P., Jerome J.H., Kondratyev K.Ya. and Pozdnyakov D.V. (1995). Optical Properties and Remote Sensing of Inland and Coastal Waters, CRC
Press, NY, pp.362.
REFERENCE BOOKS :
Jerlov, N.G. (1976). Marine Optics. New York: Parsons, T.R., Takahashi, M., & Hargrave, B. (1990). Biological Oceanographic Processes (3rd ed.). Oxford: Pergamon.
The Open University. (1997). Seawater: Its Composition, Properties and Behavior. (2nd ed.). Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, seminar and lab work.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assignments
Midterm Exam
Final Exam

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 168

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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