Feasibility of using remote sensing platforms as an aid to water quality monitoring in the Tennessee Valley. Capabilities and costs

Technical Report · Thu Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:10159238

Dierberg, F

Remote sensing devices, which include satellite- and airborne mounted sensors (fluorosensors, imaging spectrometers, multispectral video and scanners), were evaluated according to their availability and technical, operational, and economic features for water quality monitoring in Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reservoirs. Optical and electronic advances, and lower capital costs, have resulted in sensors that are more real-time oriented, user-interactive, flexible, portable, accessible, spectral/spatially resolved, and affordable than what had been available. Two airborne sensors, the Airborne Multispectral Measurement System (AMMS), manufactured by Xybion Electronic Systems Corp., and the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI), manufactured by Itres Research Limited and marketed by G.A. Borstad Associates Ltd., possess the cost and technical aspects to be seriously considered for acquisition by TVA. Either would add considerable capability to TVA`s efforts of mapping turbidity, transparency, chlorophyll, suspended solids, and aquatic macrophytes in reservoirs.

• Research Organization: Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, TN (United States). Div. of Water Resources
• Sponsoring Organization: Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN (United States)
• OSTI ID: 10159238
• Report Number(s): TVA/WR/WQ-91/8; ON: DE92015738
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 20 Jun 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
WATER QUALITY
MONITORING
WATER RESERVOIRS
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
REMOTE SENSING
COST
EVALUATION
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
SPECTROMETERS
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SITE RESOURCE AND USE STUDIES
CHEMICALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUMENTATION