Empirical and semi-analytical chlorophyll a algorithms for multi-temporal monitoring of New Zealand lakes using Landsat

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Allan, Mathew G ^a   Hamilton, David P ^a   Hicks, Brendan ^a   Brabyn, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bio optical; Chlorophyll; Landsat; Remote sensing; Semi analytical; Symbolic regression; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER QUALITY;

AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING; BIO-OPTICAL; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; LANDSAT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELLING; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SYMBOLIC REGRESSION;

LAKES;

CHLOROPHYLL A; LAKE WATER; CHLOROPHYLL;

ALGORITHM; CHLOROPHYLL A; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER QUALITY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; AUTOMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LANDSAT; NEW ZEALAND; RECORDING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER QUALITY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BAY OF PLENTY; LAKE ROTORUA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW ZEALAND; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84930010972     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4585-4     Document Type: Article

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