Monitoring blooms and surface accumulation of cyanobacteria in the Curonian Lagoon by combining MERIS and ASAR data

Mapping phytoplankton blooms in deep subalpine lakes from Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8

“…Within this context, synoptic, frequent, and global Earth Observation (EO) data might provide valuable data to improve the monitoring of phytoplankton blooms in freshwater ecosystems (Hestir et al, 2015). For the last decades, EO data have been successfully applied for mapping blooms and phenology (Wang & Shi, 2008;Stumpf et al, 2012;Bresciani et al, 2014;Matthews & Odermatt, 2015). These studies were typically focused on the retrieval of chlorophyll-a concentration (chl-a), commonly used as a proxy of phytoplankton biomass.…”

Remote estimation of cyanobacteria-dominance in inland waters

“…Cyanobacterial surface scums and floating vegetation could significantly change the characteristics of water remote sensing reflectance (Bresciani et al, 2014;Matthews et al, 2012). In these extreme conditions, the red peaks of the water remote sensing reflectance shifts towards 750 nm or higher wavelengths from 700 nm because the absorbing effect of water is minimized (Matthews et al, 2012).…”

Spatial and temporal distribution of coloured dissolved organic matter in a hypertrophic freshwater lagoon

“…The band 9 (705 nm) to band 7 (665 nm) ratio of MERIS-derived R rs was then computed to estimate chl-a concentration according to Žilius et al (2014). Based on Bresciani et al (2014) we also removed all pixels affected by surface scum phenomena. The maps of MERIS-derived CDOM and chla were geocoded and projected to the WGS 84/UTM zone 34N coordinate system.…”