STABILITY OF GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION AND CONFIGURATION OF BORDERS OF BIOPRODUCTIVE
World’s Oceans Observed by Orbital Station Crews (Diatomeya) Stability of Geographical Position and Configuration of Borders of Bioproductive Water Zones of the
Research Area: Earth Remote Sensing
Expeditions(s): 2-18
Principal Investigator(s): ● Mikhail Ye. Vinogradov, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Stability of Geographical Position and
Configuration of Borders of Bioproductive
Water Zones of the World’s Oceans Observed
by Orbital Station Crews (Diatomeya) allows
the International Space Station (ISS) crews to
study and identify the patterns of the
biologically productive waters of the world’s
oceans. This task is crucial with scientific and
economic applications of global significance.
EARTH BENEFITS
Diatomeya creates scientific-technical and
organizational foundations for obtaining
trade-oceanologic information, which has commercial properties. This investigation documents
data for real-time evaluation of the negative consequences of industry development of
hydrocarbon deposits and other resources in areas of the continental shelf and distant areas of
the open ocean.
SPACE BENEFITS
This investigation is applied to new knowledge and not specifically to advances in space
exploration.
RESULTS
A result of Diatomeya was that the scope and nature of the
spatial-temporal variability were determined, which are
important in trade relations of the bioproductive waters of the
world’s oceans, and namely the following were accomplished.
This investigation also contributed to the data set of the
influence of long-term spaceflight conditions on the quality of
film and digital media carriers. For the Diatomeya investigation
a new method was developed and implemented for azimuth
fixing of photo images of the featureless waters (images were
obtained using handheld cameras) and the conditions for
manifestation of the contrast zones of the ocean in brightness
fields were determined.Tropical Atlantic. Color of the waters and structure of
the bottom of the offshore waters of Eleuthera Island,
Bahamas. Roscosmos image.North Atlantic. Highly productive
zone in the English Channel
South. Roscosmos image.