Remote sensing for water quality monitoring in the Tennessee valley: Field tests of two systems

Technical Report · Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6886469

Dierberg, F

Two airborne renote sensing systems, the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) and the Airborne Multispectral Measurement System (AMMS) were field tested over reservoirs in the Tennessee River valley during the summmer of 1991 and winter (AMMS only) of 1992. Univariate, linear regression analyses using single or ratioed wavelength bands and line height algorithms for spectral energy in the 625-725 nm wavelength range provided the best correlations to ground-truthed uncorrected chlorophyll A, turbidity, suspended solids, and Secchi disk transparency. Details of these monitoring studies are included in this report.

• Research Organization: Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, TN (United States). Div. of Water Resources
• Sponsoring Organization: TVA; Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6886469
• Report Number(s): TVA/WR-92/17; ON: DE93008997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AERIAL MONITORING
ALGORITHMS
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
CHLOROPHYLL
COMPILED DATA
DATA
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FILTERS
HETEROCYCLIC ACIDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HYDROLOGY
INFORMATION
INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MICROORGANISMS
MONITORING
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
PHYTOCHROMES
PIGMENTS
PORPHYRINS
PROTEINS
RADIATION MONITORING
RIVERS
SOLIDS
SPECTRA
SPECTROMETERS
STREAMS
SURFACE WATERS
TENNESSEE RIVER
TURBIDITY
WATER QUALITY
WATER RESERVOIRS