Abstract

An advanced pump-and-probe (P&P) airborne LIDAR technology for remote monitoring of aquatic photosynthesis and complimentary environmental variables has been recently developed at Wallops Flight Facflity (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). The P&P 1.1DAR provides remote measurement of important phytoplankton photosynthetic characteristics, such as the functional absorption cross-scction of photosystem II (PSII), PSII photochemical quantum yield, and PSII turnover time. In addition, the rate parameters of singlet-singlet and singlet-triplet quenching and carotenoid triplet lifetime are measured.

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