Reported here for the first time is the use of simultaneous airborne laser-induced dye fluorescence and the 3400 cm -1 OH-stretch water Raman backscatter spectra to yield the absolute concentration of an ocean-dispersed tracer dye. Using a straightforward theoretical model, the concentration is calcuated by numerically comparing the airborne laser-induced fluroescence and Raman backscatter spectra to similar laboratory data for a known dye concentration measured under comparable environmental and instrumental conditions. The dye is assumed to be uniformly mixed throughout the water column together with other interfering, fluorescent, organic matter. A minimum detectable integrated water column dye concentration of about 2 ppb by weight as limited by background and instrument noise is obtained. A dye concentration contour map produced from the conical scan lidar data is given.
Absolute tracer dye concentration using airborne laser-induced water Raman backscatter
Bestimmung der absoluten Konzentration von Spurenfarbstoffen mit laserinduzierter Raman-Rueckstreuung des Wassers vom Luftfahrzeug aus
Applied Optics ; 20 , 7 ; 1191-1202
1981
12 Seiten, 10 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 22 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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