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Again we'll have to head at an angel of 135 degrees from the plane of the sun
that point there? Up to the end of that point, and then we're going to do another transect heading out that way. Again we'll have to head at an angel of 135 degrees from the plane of the sun
that point there? Up to the end of that point, and then we're going to do another transect heading out that way.
What am doing now is recording the GPS position, as well as the depth of our transect
Now the Darlek is an instrument which the remote sensing group at Curtin University uses
to record the intensity of light coming out of the water's surface coming out at several hundred wavelengths between 400 nanometers
which is blue light, and 900 nanometers which is in the infrared
that collectively generates what we call a spectra, and from a spectra we can produce
or obtain geophysical parameters, such as the chlorophyll concentration
now what I will be doing today is collecting some water samples, and with the water samples I will be measuring the concentration of suspended particulates
in the water column as well chlorophyll concentration, I'll use that information to validate
what I obtained from the sprectra and also validate some data we can obtain from satellite imagery
this information will help give marine biologists an overall picture on the health of the coral reef system throughout the Kimberley region