FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Towards a better assessment of the ecological status of coastal waters using satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentrations BT AF GOHIN, Francis SAULQUIN, Bertrand OGER-JEANNERET, Helene LOZAC' H, L LAMPERT, Luis LEFEBVRE, Alain RIOU, Philippe BRUCHON, F AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;5:4;6:5;7:4;8:6; FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PELAGOS;2:PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PELAGOS;3:PDG-DOP-LER-LERMPL;4:;5:PDG-DOP-LER-LERN;6:PDG-DOP-LER-LERBL;7:PDG-DOP-LER-LERN;8:; C1 IFREMER, F-29280 Plouzane, Brittany, France. IFREMER, F-44311 Nantes, Brittany, France. HOCER, F-29540 Guipaves, Brittany, France. IFREMER, F-14520 Port En Bessin, France. Ifremer Boulogne, F-62321 Boulogne Sur Mer, France. Agcy Eau Seine Normandie Delegat Littoral & Mer, F-14600 Honfleur, France. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE HOCER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE AGCE EAU SEINE NORMANDIE, FRANCE SI BREST NANTES PORT-EN-BESSIN BOULOGNE SE PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PELAGOS PDG-DOP-LER-LERMPL PDG-DOP-LER-LERN PDG-DOP-LER-LERBL IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france IF 3.943 TC 75 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4501.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;SeaWiFS;Coastal;Surveillance;Monitoring;Chlorophyll;Satellite AB The application of the new Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the European Union will require a dense and frequent monitoring of chlorophyll-a near the coast. Not counting the transitional water bodies located in the vicinity of estuaries, not less than seventy four coastal water bodies have to be monitored along the coast of the French Atlantic continental shelf and the English Channel. All the available data have to be gathered to implement a comprehensive monitoring scheme. To this purpose, we evaluate the capacity of ocean colour imagery to complete the conventional in situ data set collected in coastal networks. Satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentration is obtained by the application of a coastal Look-Up-Table to water-leaving radiance of the Sea-viewing Wide Field Instrument Sensor (SeaWiFS) for the 1998-2004 period. Seven years of satellite-derived and in situ chlorophyll-a concentrations are compared at seven representative stations of different water bodies. These comparisons show that the satellite products are reliable in most of the situations studied and throughout the seasons. Then the satellite imagery is used to classify the coastal waters following the eutrophication risk criterion of the WFD. This classification is made according to the percentile-90 of chlorophyll-a calculated during the productive season, from March to October. Despite a lack of sensor coverage over a small fraction of the near shore waters, this work shows that the satellite monitoring can considerably ease the application of the WFD. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All Fights reserved. PY 2008 PD AUG SO Remote Sensing of Environment SN 0034-4257 PU Elsevier VL 112 IS 8 UT 000258006900005 BP 3329 EP 3340 DI 10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.014 ID 4501 ER EF