Application of Landsat 8 for monitoring impacts of wastewater discharge on coastal water quality

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2017, Pages

  Trinh, Rebecca C ^a,b   Fichot, Cédric G ^c   Gierach, Michelle M ^a   Holt, Benjamin ^a   Malakar, Nabin K ^a,d   Hulley, Glynn ^a   Smith, Jayme ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Coastal water quality; Landsat 8; Satellite remote sensing; Sea surface temperature (SST); Wastewater diversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032658245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00329     Document Type: Article

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