Final Data Report

These data were collected as part of a three year, multiagency research project to develop a remote sensing system to provide near real time image products to fishermen in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The data consist of environmental

measurements acquired by boats and vessels, and fish catch information reported by sport fishermen and menhaden spotter pilots and vessel captains. The data were acquired concurrently with overflights of the Airborne Ocean Color Imager (AOCI). The AOCI is a multispectral scanner carried aboard a Learjet and developed to remotely sense water color in coastal and

oceanic waters. The environmental and fisheries data were used to develop image processing algorithms required for the effort and experimental data products that were distributed to fishermen in near real time. Nearly all of the field data were earth located using Loran-C equipment onboard the vessels, boats, and aircraft and recorded in latitude and longitude coordinates in the data sets. The study area generally encompassed the area from southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River westward to Marsh Island, Louisiana.

To provide FINAL DATA REPORT for the APPLICATION OF THE AIRBORNE OCEAN COLOR IMAGER FOR COMMERCIAL FISHING