Image processing algorithms application for the modeling biogeochemical cycles of the Azov Sea

Abstract

In the article biogeochemical processes of the Azov Sea were researched. Mathematical non-stationary 3D model is proposed which describes the development dynamics of the two most common species of phytoplankton populations in the summer, the growth of which is limited by a single biogenic element, is proposed the linearization of continuous mathematical model on a uniform temporal grid is made. For a continuous model, a discrete analogue is constructed and an optimal method for grid equations solving is selected. To determine the boundary of the considered computational domain of a complex shape an image processing algorithm has been developed, implemented as a software module on Python, which makes it possible to obtain a dynamically changing contour of the Azov Sea from satellite images.