Characterization of turbidity in Florida's Lake Okeechobee and Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Estuaries using MODIS-Aqua measurements

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5410-5422

  Wang, Menghua ^a   Nim, Carl J ^a,c   Son, SeungHyun ^a,b   Shi, Wei ^a,b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lake Okeechobee; Remote sensing; Water quality monitoring; Water turbidity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; HURRICANES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM; LAKE OKEECHOBEE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OCEAN COLOR REMOTE SENSING; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER TURBIDITY; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES;

ESTUARIES;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); DATA SET; DRAINAGE BASIN; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HURRICANE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MODIS; NEAR INFRARED; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OCEAN COLOR; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WIND WAVE;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTUARY; HURRICANE; INFRARED RADIATION; LAKE; LAKE SEDIMENT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SALINITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CALOOSAHATCHEE ESTUARY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LAKE OKEECHOBEE; SAINT LUCIE ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865990462     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.07.024     Document Type: Article

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