Sensing an intense phytoplankton bloom in the western Taiwan Strait from radiometric measurements on a UAV

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 198, Issue , 2017, Pages 85-94

  Shang, Shaoling ^a   Lee, Zhongping ^b   Lin, Gong ^a   Hu, Chuanmin ^c   Shi, Lianghai ^a   Zhang, Yongnian ^d   Li, Xueding ^e   Wu, Jingyu ^a   Yan, Jing ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Fujian Surveying and Mapping Institute   (China)

^e Fujian Marine Forecast ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Phytoplankton bloom; Remote sensing reflectance; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; COSTS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER QUALITY;

CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYPERSPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; OCEAN-COLOR SATELLITES; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ALGAL BLOOM; CHLOROPHYLL A; MODIS; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

TAIWAN STRAIT;

ALGAE; PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA;

EID: 85020002503     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.05.036     Document Type: Article

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