gene carl feldman ( gene.c.feldman@nasa.gov) (301) 286-9494
Applicant's Name: Dr. Rolando Hernandez
Institution: Universidad de Concepcion
Address: Victor Lamas 1290, Concepcion
Casilla 160-C, Correo 3, Concepcion
Telephone: 56-41-204740
Fax Number: 56-41-522037
E-mail Address: lab@lts.udec.cl
Type of Temporary Agreement requested:
An agreement that temporarily enables a non-real time SeaWiFS HRPT station
to decrypt real-time data and release it to the Authorized Users list.
Time period of temporary agreement:
Dates (month/day/year): 10/13/2004 - 11/23/2004
12/08/2004 - 12/21/2004
SeaWiFS HRPT Station to provide data: HCON
Description of the Research Project and Justification for Real-time SeaWiFS Data.
Title: Last generation oceanographic and remote sensing
techniques for integral management of coastal ocean under
an ecosystemic approach.
This two-year project has, as main goal, to improve knowledge of coastal
ocean by means of the application of a probabilistic ecosystemic model that
allows an efficient production management, by integrating basic information
into the decision making process for marine safety, navigation, environment
and aquaculture.
Until now, quality of waters and the environment has been assessed on the base
of measuring some chemical and physical variables and/or in the variability of
the existing biota. In other words, with a reduction approach. Nevertheless,
because of the complexity of the system under study, an holistic, multi and
interdisciplinary approach should be applied. This approach is intended
to be carried out, including considerations on environmental carrying
capacity and assimilation capacity of specific systems and their ability to
absorb and dilute perturbations that take place as well on a daily base as
isolated events.
This project will be carried out in the inner Chiloe sea, southward
from Quinchao and Desertores constriction. In this area, all physical
oceanographic (currents, transport and water column structure), chemical
(nutrients, bioutilized metals, dissolved colored organic matter, gases)
and biological processes (phytoplankton production, zooplankton feeding,
culture organisms biomass) will be assessed, along with a monitoring of
both phyto and zooplankton, establishing flows of materials among every one
of the compartments as well as the transport and dispersion that will take
place in the area under study.
With this dynamic-probabilistic model it is intended to improve a predictive
capacity on events or perturbations that can negatively affect aquaculture
activity keeping, at the same time, the environmental quality.
The scientific team that will carry out this project has great experience in
the field of coastal oceanography, marine organisms physiology and numeric
modelling of oceanographic processes. This is guaranteed by the involvement
of their researchers in several studies related to this issue, besides the
expertise and knowledge in order to achive the proposal goal.
The impact this project will produce with the use of the model, along with
the exploitation of an integrated system of environmental will be translated
into the scientific community, because of the amount of information that
the project will generate, only from the satellite imagery. This information
will be stored as a data bank for future activities such as:
1. Meteorological, oceanographic and satellite databases
2. Development and application of environmental models
3. Model validations
4. Simulation of environmental responses
Also, the SeaWiFS imaginery is useful for to support the execution of oceanographic cruise.
List of Authorized Users to access real-time data.
1. Dr. Rolando Hernnandez
2. Dr. Samuel Hormazabal
3. Eng. Mauricio Arenas
4. Eng. Violeta Torres
5. Eng. Alejandra Pinto
6. Eng. Oscar Salas