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Since the pioneering work of Clarke et al. (1970) it has been known that chlorophyll a (or, more generally, pigments) contained in phytoplankton in near-surface waters produced systematic variations in the color of the ocean which could be observed from aircraft. As a direct result of this work, NASA developed the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), which was launched on Nimbus-G (now Nimbus-7) in October 1978. (A short description of the CZCS is provided in Appendix I.)
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Gordon, H.R., Morel, A.Y. (1983). Introduction. In: Remote Assessment of Ocean Color for Interpretation of Satellite Visible Imagery. Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6280-7_1
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