Abstract
For satellite remote sensing of coastal pollution, a radiative transfer model for a coupled atmosphere-ocean system was developed to estimate upward radiance from polluted sea surface. Optical properties of suspended materials in ocean such as phytoplankton (Skeletonema costatum and Heterosigma akashiwo), detritus, submicron particles and inorganic particles were measured or estimated. The equation of radiative transfer in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system was solved by using Invariance imbedding method. Upward radiance from sea surface in case II water, flowage of soil particles and red tide were calculated. It is, then, possible to estimate the soil particle and the red tide phytoplankton concentration by using the ratio of upward radiance in different wavelengths in satellite remote sensing.
