Absorption and backscattering characteristics are important optical properties and they are also two basic parameters of bio鄄optical model. Remote Sensing reflectance is the basis for inversing water quality parameters and its character mainly depends on absorption and backscattering of all kinds of optical active substances of water, so it is very important to study absorption and backscattering characteristics of water and its influence on remote sensing reflectance. Lake Taihu is one of the five major freshwater lakes and also a typically shallow inland eutrophic lake in China with an area of 2338 km 2 and an average depth of about 2 m. In this paper the in situ remote sensing reflectance and absorption coefficients measured in April 2009 in Lake Taihu were firstly used to deduce backscattering coefficients of particles combined with bio鄄optical model. Then we analyzed the absorption and backscattering characteristics of Lake Taihu in spring, and Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) was used to decompose remote sensing reflectance in order to analyze the
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