Detection limit of fishing boats by the day night band (DNB) on VIIRS

Ichio Asanuma; Takashi Yamaguchi; John-geol Park; Kenneth J. Mackin; John Mittleman

doi:10.1117/12.2237701

19 September 2016 Detection limit of fishing boats by the day night band (DNB) on VIIRS

Ichio Asanuma, Takashi Yamaguchi, John-geol Park, Kenneth J. Mackin, John Mittleman

Proceedings Volume 9976, Imaging Spectrometry XXI; 99760P (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237701
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The detection limit of DNB was proposed as a function of the brightness temperature (BT) at 3.7 μm, where the transmittance of cloud could be observed as a change of surface temperature. The shortwave infrared band exhibited a wide distribution in BT more than the thermal infrared band for the same level of DNB radiance. The lights from surface were identified even under the full Moon condition with the proposed method, where clouds were reflecting the lunar lights. A different distribution of clouds for day to day and a change of the Moon phase with its elevation make this problem more complicated. But the approach of contrast based evaluation of surface lights and lunar reflected lights could be one solution to distinguish the lights from the surface. Currently, a validation is necessary in the future to confirm this algorithm and to validate the detected pixels to be fishing boats with the stable light sources. The time series data of fishing boats could be studied to analyze the region of fishing area relative to the distribution of sea surface temperature and/or chlorophyll-a.

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Ichio Asanuma, Takashi Yamaguchi, John-geol Park, Kenneth J. Mackin, and John Mittleman "Detection limit of fishing boats by the day night band (DNB) on VIIRS", Proc. SPIE 9976, Imaging Spectrometry XXI, 99760P (19 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237701

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