Hyperspectral sensing for turbid water quality monitoring in freshwater rivers: Empirical relationship between reflectance and turbidity and total solids

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 22670-22688

  Wu, Jiunn Lin ^a   Ho, Chung Ru ^b   Huang, Chia Ching ^a   Srivastav, Arun Lal ^a   Tzeng, Jing Hua ^a   Lin, Yao Tung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral sensing; Multiple regression; Neural network; Remote sensing; Total solids; Turbid water; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING; MULTIPLE-REGRESSION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOTAL SOLIDS; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS; TURBID WATER; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

RIVERS;

EID: 84914696677     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s141222670     Document Type: Article

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