A REMOTE SENSING BASED FRAMEWORK FOR PREDICTING WATER QUALITY OF DIFFERENT SOURCE WATERS

摘要

In this paper, a satellite based remote sensing technique of acquiring water quality data is proposed. A review has been presented on retrieval of five major independent water quality variables (chlorophyll-a, Secchi disk depth, total phosphorus, turbidity and temperature) from the satellite data. A frame work has been developed for mapping water quality variables at landscape level using satellite and ground measured data with an intent to help classify source waters according to pollution levels in Alberta.