Continuous spectral measurement of backscattering in sea water

J. Zhou; A. Gilerson; I. Ioannou; B. Gross; F. Moshary; S. Ahmed

doi:10.1117/12.731642

25 September 2007 Continuous spectral measurement of backscattering in sea water

J. Zhou, A. Gilerson, I. Ioannou, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed

Proceedings Volume 6755, Advanced Environmental, Chemical, and Biological Sensing Technologies V; 67550J (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.731642
Event: Optics East, 2007, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

A prototype for an active backscattering probe for continuous backscattering spectrum measurement in sea water was designed and tested in both lab and field experiments. For the laboratory experiments, at various algae concentrations, the impact of overlapping chlorophyll fluorescence was effectively eliminated by using a long pass filter on the excitation light source. In the field tests with an active light source, and under the conditions of strong algal scattering (eg bloom conditions) it was shown that the impact of ambient background day light can be accounted for by successive measurements with the lamp illumination periodically on-off. The results show that the spectral shape of backscattering of algae cells is highly structured and consistent with Mie calculations which take into account the anomalous dispersion due to the strong absorption features of chlorophyll. The backscatter ratio, however, is found to be stable (within 10%) throughout the entire spectral region outside the chlorophyll fluorescence band, even when scattering is dominated by that from algae cells.

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J. Zhou, A. Gilerson, I. Ioannou, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed "Continuous spectral measurement of backscattering in sea water", Proc. SPIE 6755, Advanced Environmental, Chemical, and Biological Sensing Technologies V, 67550J (25 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.731642

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