Remote sensing of chlorophyll-a concentrations of the Pearl River estuary from MODIS land bands

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4625-4633

  Liu, Dazhao ^a,b   Chen, Chuqun ^a   Gong, Jieqiong ^a,c   Fu, Dongyang ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ESTUARIES; GEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; CHROMOPHORIC DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PEARL RIVER ESTUARY; PHYTOPLANKTON CHLOROPHYLL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TOTAL SUSPENDED MATTER;

CHLOROPHYLL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG ESTUARY;

EID: 77957721631     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.485212     Document Type: Article

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