SBIR Phase I: A Hydro Optical Analysis System (HOPAS) for Environmental Monitoring of Water Quality

这项小型企业创新研究第一阶段的信息技术项目将开发一个用户友好但功能强大的软件包，使用户能够以常用格式导入海洋或淡水光学数据；用各种生态和辐射传输反演模型处理数据，得出水柱的基本物理、化学和生物描述；并以方便的数字和图形格式查看/导出结果信息。该软件将成为将商业光学仪器和最近开发的辐射传输模型与大型海洋学家社区、海洋颜色遥感研究人员以及水质和水生资源管理人员联系起来的工具。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project in Information-Based Technology will develop a user-friendly yet powerful software package that enables users to import marine or fresh water optical data in commonly used formats; process the data with a variety of ecological and radiative transfer inversion models to derive essential physical, chemical, and biological descriptions of the water column; and view/export the resulting information in convenient digital and graphical formats. This software will be the tool that connects commercial optical instrumentation and recently developed radiative transfer models with the large communities of oceanographers, ocean color remote sensing researchers, and water-quality and aquatic-resource managers.