On the Informativeness of Surveys of Marine Coastal Areas
Using the Ocean Color Scanners

G. S. Karabashev and M. A. Evdoshenko

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: genkar@mail.ru

Received May 16, 2012; in final form, December 18, 2012

Abstract—We used the archive data of the ocean color scanners (OCS) SeaWiFS and MODIS to reveal the
impact of their design and operational characteristics on the estimates of the sea surface’s reflectance as a spatial
variable in an extremely changeable small aquatic area as compared to the OCS’s swath. Accounting for these
characteristics is particularly necessary when studying the long-term changes in such areas to avoid the distor-
tions of the trends and distributions due to biased data.

DOI: 10.1134/S0001437013050056

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