Suspended sediment concentration mapping based on the MODIS satellite imagery in the East China inland, estuarine, and coastal waters -- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2017,35(1):39-60

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	YANG Xianping, SOKOLETSKY Leonid, WEI Xiaodao, SHEN Fang. Suspended sediment concentration mapping based on the MODIS satellite imagery in the East China inland, estuarine, and coastal waters[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2017, 35(1): 39-60

Suspended sediment concentration mapping based on the MODIS satellite imagery in the East China inland, estuarine, and coastal waters

YANG Xianping, SOKOLETSKY Leonid, WEI Xiaodao, SHEN Fang

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to improve the retrieval accuracy for the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) from in situ and satellite remote sensing measurements in turbid East China estuarine and coastal waters. For this aim, three important tasks are formulated and solved: 1) an estimation of remote-sensing reflectance spectra R_rs(λ) after atmospheric correction; 2) an estimation of R_rs(λ) from the radiometric signals above the air-water surface; and 3) an estimation of SSC from R_rs(λ). Six different models for radiometric R rs(λ) determination and 28 models for SSC versus R_rs(λ) are analyzed based on the field observations made in the Changjiang River estuary and its adjacent coastal area. The SSC images based on the above-mentioned analysis are generated for the area.

Key words: ocean optics|turbid estuarine and coastal waters|remote-sensing reflectance|suspended sediment concentration|atmospheric correction

Received: 2015-03-03 Revised: 2015-07-13

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