The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Hyperspectral Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiments
(HyCODE) program is a five-year ONR initiative that began in January 1999. HyCODE is designed to utilize
hyperspectral imagery to improve understanding of the diverse processes controlling inherent optical properties
(IOPs) in the coastal ocean. The program will also develop operational ocean color algorithms in both the
optically-shallow ocean (i.e., where the signal detected by the satellite sensor is affected by the seafloor)
and the optically-deep ocean (i.e., where the signal detected by the satellite sensor is not directly
affected by the seafloor). HyCODE field experiments focus on three locations: 1) off the coast of
New Jersey at the LEO-15 site, 2) on the west
Florida shelf (WSF) off St. Petersburg, FL, and
3) in the Bahamas off Lee Stocking Island
(LSI) as part of the ONR CoBOP program. A broad range of advanced optical and physical measurements and models
will be used for HyCODE. HyCODE activities are linked to planned Navy satellite sensors with advanced color
sensing capabilities. In conjunction with private industry, the Department of the Navy is developing a
satellite-based hyperspectral ocean color imager with a planned launch date in the year 2000. The Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL) has responsibility for calibration; development of at-launch algorithms; on-board data
compression software and related software for NEMO's ground data system; some data processing; and data
archiving. Products of at-launch algorithms will include: water clarity (diffuse attenuation coefficient
at 490 nm), concentration of chlorophyll, absorption coefficient of colored dissolved organic matter, a
measure of suspended sediments, bathymetry, and bottom characteristics. The Navy's goal for this program is
to demonstrate the scientific and technical capability to characterize the littoral environment with remote
sensors.
Program Officers
| Joan Cleveland | Web Page | |
| Steve Ackleson | Web Page |
First Principal Investigators
| Robert A. Arnone | Web Page | |
| Paul Bissett | Web Page | |
| Ken Carder | Web Page | |
| Curt Davis | Web Page | |
| Tommy D. Dickey | Web Page | |
| Ronald J. Holyer | ||
| Albert Hine | ||
| Marlon R. Lewis | Web Page | |
| Robert Maffione | Web Page | |
| Helmut Maske | ||
| Charles Mazel | Web Page | |
| Walt McBride | ||
| Ken Melville | Web Page | |
| Bill Philpot | Web Page | |
| Scott Pegau | Web Page | |
| Oscar Schofield | Web Page | |
| Ray Smith | Web Page | |
| John Trowbridge | Web Page | |
| John Walsh | ||
| Bob Weisberg | Web Page |