Abstract:The application of remote sensing data to empirical models of inland surface water chlorophyll-a concentrations (chl-a) has been in development since the launch of the Landsat 4 satellite series in 1982. However, establishing an empirical model using a chl-a retrieval algorithm is difficult due to the spatial heterogeneity of inland lake water properties. Classification of optical water types (OWTs; i.e., differentially observed water spectra due to differences in water properties) has grown in favour in recen… Show more
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