Outlook for the satellite ocean color remote sensing research

Abstract

Ocean color remote sensing has evolved from the first global observation of phytoplankton chlorophyll-a pigment to multiple observations of biogeochemical and ecological quantities such as chromophoic dissolved organic matter and phytoplankton community structure. This evolution is a result of methodological advances in both hardware and software. Based on the author’s activities in the ocean color research so far, future perspective on the ocean color remote sensing is described in terms of mainly, but not limited to, the software development.