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18 June 2013 Approach to developing numeric water quality criteria for coastal waters: transition from SeaWiFS to MODIS and MERIS satellites
Blake A. Schaeffer, James D. Hagy, Richard P. Stumpf
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 073544 (June 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.7.073544
Abstract
States can adopt numeric water quality criteria into their water quality standards to protect the designated uses of their coastal waters from eutrophication impacts. The first objective of this study was to provide an approach for developing numeric water quality criteria for coastal waters based on archived SeaWiFS ocean color satellite data. The second objective was to develop an approach for transferring water quality criteria assessments to newer ocean color satellites, such as MODIS and MERIS. Measures of SeaWiFS, MODIS, and MERIS chlorophyll-a (Chl RS -a , mgm −3 ) were resolved across Florida’s coastal waters between 1998 and 2009. Annual geometric means of SeaWiFS Chl RS -a were evaluated to determine a quantitative reference baseline from the 90th percentile of the annual geometric means. A method for transferring to multiple ocean color sensors was implemented with SeaWiFS as the reference instrument. The Chl RS -a annual geometric means for each coastal segment from MODIS and MERIS were regressed against SeaWiFS to provide a similar response among all three satellites. Standardization factors for each coastal segment were calculated based on the differences between 90th percentile from SeaWiFS to MODIS and SeaWiFS to MERIS. This transfer approach was allowed for future assessments, typically with <7% difference in the calculated criteria.
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Blake A. Schaeffer, James D. Hagy, and Richard P. Stumpf "Approach to developing numeric water quality criteria for coastal waters: transition from SeaWiFS to MODIS and MERIS satellites," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 7(1), 073544 (18 June 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.7.073544
Published: 18 June 2013
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KEYWORDS
Satellites
Remote sensing
MODIS
Water
Sensors
Image segmentation
Reflectivity
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