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Application of MODIS data in monitoring suspended sediment of Taihu Lake, China

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Application of MODIS in ocean color is mainly based on bands 8–16 with the spatial resolution of 1 000 m. This spatial resolution, however, can not meet the application demand of inland waters where the areas are relatively small. With the assumption of the black water at shortwave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths (>1 000 nm), we first propose an atmospheric correction method for bands 1 and 2 with their spatial resolution of 250 m, and we then establish a quantitative retrieval model for suspended sediment concentration retrieval using the in-situ data collected in Taihu Lake. We also use MODIS data to retrieve the suspended sediment concentration of Taihu Lake with the retrieval model. The comparison between the retrieved and measured suspended sediment concentrations confirms that our algorithm can provide reliable data for monitoring the suspended sediment in Taihu Lake.

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  1. National Satellite Ocean Application Service (NSOAS), State Oceanic Administration, Beijing, 100081, China

    Xingwei Jiang  (蒋兴伟), Junwu Tang  (唐军武), Minwei Zhang  (张民伟) & Jing Ding  (丁静)

  2. Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Junwu Tang  (唐军武) & Minwei Zhang  (张民伟)

  3. Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Ronghua Ma  (马荣华)

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Supported by National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)(Nos. 2006AA09Z178, 2006AA09Z140), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40606042)

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Jiang, X., Tang, J., Zhang, M. et al. Application of MODIS data in monitoring suspended sediment of Taihu Lake, China. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 27, 614–620 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-009-9160-9

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