Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (UOWC) is not a new idea, but it has recently
attracted renewed interest since seawater presents a reduced absorption window for blue …

Remote sensing approaches to measuring inland water quality date back nearly 50 years to
the beginning of the satellite era. Over this time span, hundreds of peer-reviewed …

Ocean color measured from satellites provides daily global, synoptic views of spectral water-
leaving reflectances that can be used to generate estimates of marine inherent optical …

Even though most of the Earth's area is sheltered by the hydrosphere, the underwater world
is nonetheless a challenging puzzle that has drawn the attention of scientists and …

To enable high-speed underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) in tap-water and
seawater environments over long distances, a 450-nm blue GaN laser diode (LD) directly …

Long-range acoustic communication is crucial to underwater applications such as collection
of scientific data from benthic stations, ocean geology, and remote control of off-shore …

Underwater computer vision has attracted increasing attention in the research community
due to the recent advances in underwater platforms such as of rovers, gliders, autonomous …

Leaves interact with light in ways that create a spectral footprint of the terrestrial environment
of our planet. Most of the visible light penetrating the Earth's atmosphere is absorbed by …

Definitive data on the absorption spectrum of pure water from 380 to 700 nm have been
obtained with an integrating cavity technique. The results are in good agreement with those …

Mapping of total suspended matter concentration (TSM) can be achieved from space-based
optical sensors and has growing applications related to sediment transport. A TSM algorithm …