采用遥感手段估算海洋初级生产力研究进展

海洋初级生产力的精确估算对渔业资源评估与管理、海洋生态系统和全球变化等研究具有重要意义.传统的现场测量与估算方法必须依赖于随船采样数据.卫星遥感具有能够获取实时的、大尺度的、动态的海洋环境参数的优点,因此卫星遥感日益成为大尺度海洋初级生产力估算的重要手段.本文从海洋水色传感器的发展历程出发,着重归纳了以叶绿素、浮游植物碳和浮游植物吸收系数为参量的海洋初级生产力的遥感估算方法,并就这3类模型的适应性和复杂程度进行了讨论.在此基础上,进一步分析评价了全球海洋初级生产力遥感估算的研究现状.鉴于当前海洋初级生产力遥感估算研究中存在的问题,今后的研究需要在4个方面进一步加强:1)对全球海洋初级生产力估算进行分区域研究;2)加深对浮游植物吸收系数的研究;3)提高海洋遥感技术水平;4)加强实地测量技术的研究.

Review of estimation on oceanic primary productivity by using remote sensing methods.

Accuracy estimation of oceanic primary productivity is of great significance in the assessment and management of fisheries resources, marine ecology systems, global change and other fields. The traditional measurement and estimation of oceanic primary productivity has to rely on in situ sample data by vessels. Satellite remote sensing has advantages of providing dynamic and eco-environmental parameters of ocean surface at large scale in real time. Thus, satellite remote sensing has increasingly become an important means for oceanic primary productivity estimation on large spatio-temporal scale. Combining with the development of ocean color sensors, the models to estimate the oceanic primary productivity by satellite remote sensing have been developed that could be mainly summarized as chlorophyll-based, carbon-based and phytoplankton absorption-based approach. The flexibility and complexity of the three kinds of models were presented in the paper. On this basis, the current research status for global estimation of oceanic primary productivity was analyzed and evaluated. In view of these, four research fields needed to be strengthened in further stu-dy: 1) Global oceanic primary productivity estimation should be segmented and studied, 2) to dee-pen the research on absorption coefficient of phytoplankton, 3) to enhance the technology of ocea-nic remote sensing, 4) to improve the in situ measurement of primary productivity.