An approach to correct the effects of phytoplankton vertical nonuniform distribution on remote sensing reflectance of cyanobacterial bloom waters

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods - Tập 15 Số 3 - Trang 302-319 - 2017
Kun Xue1, Yuchao Zhang1, Ronghua Ma1, Hongtao Duan1
1Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China

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Abstract

Cyanobacterial blooms occur frequently in eutrophic lakes and their potentially harmful effects affected the security of drinking water and food sources, biodiversity, and economic activities, and attracted the attention of general public worldwide. Cyanobacteria could move vertically in the water column by regulating their buoyancy, which leads to the assumption of homogeneous water invalid. Ecolight, based on radiative transfer theory, was applied to examine the effects of vertical nonuniform of chlorophyll a concentrations (Chl a(z)) on remote sensing reflectance spectrum (Rrs(λ)) of optically complex inland waters. Simulations for nonuniform water consisting of three Chl a(z) profile classes, including Gaussian, exponential, and power, were compared with simulations for a reference homogeneous water whose Chl a was identical to average value of the nonuniform case. The near‐surface aggregation of phytoplankton are shown to have significant influence on Rrs(λ) and Chl a inversion algorithms. Variations of ΔRrs(λ) (relative difference of Rrs(λ) between inhomogeneous and homogeneous waters with same average Chl a concentration) mainly depended on the Chl a(z) structure parameters and wavelength. A correction scheme was developed based on the relationships between ΔRrs(λ) and Chl a(z) structure parameters. With knowledge of Chl a(z) profile parameters, Rrs(λ) of inhomogeneous waters can be corrected to the Rrs(λ) of uniform waters with same average Chl a across the water column. Examples of field data from Lake Chaohu illustrated the effects of phytoplankton variation on the near infrared‐to‐red ratio of Rrs and the Rrs correction performance.

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Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Tập 15 Số 3

302-319

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