Earth observations in support of global water quality
Part of: Reports and Monographs of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG). IOCCG: Dartmouth. ISSN 1098-6030, more
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- Greb, S.
- Dekker, A., more
- Binding, C.
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| Abstract |
Declining coastal, estuarine and inland water quality has become a global issue of significant concern as anthropogenic activities expand and climate change threatens to cause major alterations to the hydrological cycle. The measurement of water quality variables via radiometric measurements of the water’s optical properties has grown rapidly over recent years. Improvements in algorithms and product development, sensor technology and maturity, and data accessibility and provision have led to demonstrated confidence in remotely-sensed data with potential applications to water resources management. Management agencies, however, have been slow to embrace satellite-derived measurements to date even though important parameters such as chlorophyll-a, c-phycocyanin, suspended solids, coloured dissolved organic matter, light attenuation, Secchi Disk transparency and turbidity have been quantified with required accuracies using remotely-sensed data. |
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