AUTHOR=Gernez Pierre , Doxaran David , Barillé Laurent 

TITLE=Shellfish Aquaculture from Space: Potential of Sentinel2 to Monitor Tide-Driven Changes in Turbidity, Chlorophyll Concentration and Oyster Physiological Response at the Scale of an Oyster Farm

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science

VOLUME=4

YEAR=2017

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00137

DOI=10.3389/fmars.2017.00137

ISSN=2296-7745

ABSTRACT=<p>The algorithms of Novoa et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">2017</xref>) and Gons et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">2005</xref>) were recalibrated and applied to Sentinel2 data to retrieve suspended particulate matter (SPM) and chlorophyll <italic>a</italic> (chl <italic>a</italic>) concentration in the environmentally and economically important intertidal zones. Sentinel2-derived chl <italic>a</italic> and SPM concentration distributions were analyzed at the scale of an oyster farm over a variety of tidal conditions. Sentinel2 imagery was then coupled with ecophysiological modeling to analyze the influence of tide-driven chl <italic>a</italic> and SPM dynamics on oyster clearance and chl consumption rates. Within the studied oyster farming site (Bourgneuf Bay along the French Atlantic coast), chl consumption rate mirrored the changes in chl <italic>a</italic> concentration during neap tides, whereas oyster clearance and chl consumption rates were both negatively impacted by high SPM concentration during spring tides.</p>