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Under the current Anthropocene Epoch there is an urgent need to deliver high‐quality data, information and knowledge to the decision-making process for a sustainable management of environmental concerns, in particular for inland water. Most literature address the advantages brought by remote sensing (RS) techniques in operational monitoring and management of lakes. In the present work, optical RS is applied to a complex ecosystem, the turbid eutrophic shallow Lake Trasimeno (Italy). A first example of RS application addresses the use of high frequency spectroradiometric measurements collected by a WISPstation to retrieve intra-inter daily and seasonal dynamics of chlorophyll-a and phycocyanin. A second section focuses on long term trends of water quality by means of satellite data time series for the whole lake surface. Then we exploit the latest generation of hyperspectral satellite images (PRISMA and DESIS) utilizing the high spectral resolution and improving the accuracy of estimated lake water quality. Finally, high spatial resolution satellite data is used for a finer scale mapping of bottom substrates. Application of these techniques improved scientific understanding on the timing, composition and distribution of phytoplankton blooms, the role of nutrients and climate drivers as well as changes in the extent and composition of aquatic plants.
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This research is co-funded by ESA CCI LAKES project (GA n. 40000125030/18/I-NB) and by the Italian Space Agency with PRISCAV project (grant nr. 2019-5-HH.0) and by the H2020 EOMORES project (GA n. 730066) for the WISPstation. We would like to thank the “Cooperativa dei Pescatori del Trasimeno” for the support in field campaigns. Many thanks to Alessandra Cingolani, Fedra Charavgis and Valentina DellaBella from ARPA Umbria for useful discussions on research results. We are grateful to Luca Nicoletti and Luca Galli from ARPA Umbria for collecting water samples. We also thank the Province of Perugia for the availability to use the platform in Polvese Island used for the WISPstation. We are very grateful to Ettore Lopinto from ASI and to Uta Heiden and Nicole Pinnel from DLR for valuable discussions on PRISMA and DESIS products respectively.
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Mariano, B. et al. (2022). Optical Remote Sensing in Lake Trasimeno: Understanding from Applications Across Diverse Temporal, Spectral and Spatial Scales. In: Di Mauro, A., Scozzari, A., Soldovieri, F. (eds) Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water Cycle Management . Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08262-7_3
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