Application of New Hyperspectral Sensors in the Remote Sensing of Aquatic Ecosystem Health: Exploiting PRISMA and DESIS for Four Italian Lakes

Mariano Bresciani,Salvatore Mangano,Gary Free,Monica Pinardi,Alice Fabbretto,Andrea Pellegrino,Claudia Giardino

doi:10.3390/resources11020008

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https://doi.org/10.3390/resources11020008

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Journal: Resources	Publication Date: Jan 19, 2022
Citations: 21	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: National Research Council

Abstract

The monitoring of water bio-physical parameters and the management of aquatic ecosystems are crucial to cope with the current state of inland water degradation. Not only does water quality monitoring support management decision making, it also provides vital insights to better understand changing structural and functional lake processes. Remote sensing has been widely recognized as an essential integrating technique for water quality monitoring, thanks to its capabilities to utilize both historical archive data for thousands of lakes as well as near-real time observations at multiple scales. To date, most of the applications developed for inland water have been based on multispectral and mid to coarse spatial resolution satellites, while a new generation of spaceborne imaging spectroscopy is now available, and future missions are under development. This review aims to present the exploitation of data gathered from two currently orbiting hyperspectral sensors (i.e., PRISMA and DESIS) to retrieve water quality parameters across different aquatic ecosystems, encompassing deep clear lakes and river dammed reservoirs.

Highlights

Inland water ecosystems are crucial environments as they provide multiple ecosystem services and are vital resources for drinking, irrigation, sanitation, industry and recreation [1,2]
This review aims to present the exploitation of data gathered from two currently orbiting hyperspectral sensors (i.e., PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa (PRISMA) and DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS)) to retrieve water quality parameters across different aquatic ecosystems, encompassing deep clear lakes and river dammed reservoirs
Niroumand-Jadidi et al [91] retrieved water quality maps from PRISMA images and the results suggested the high potential of PRISMA imagery in mapping water quality parameters in Lake Trasimeno

Summary

Introduction

Inland water ecosystems are crucial environments as they provide multiple ecosystem services and are vital resources for drinking, irrigation, sanitation, industry and recreation [1,2]. Resources 2022, 11, 8 tem mapping for the retrieval of parameters describing water quality, aquatic vegetation (e.g., biomass [41], invasive species identification [42]) and benthic substrates that might be undetectable with broadband multispectral sensors [15,27,40,43,44,45,46,47,48] In such a context, airborne data (e.g., APEX, AISA, MIVIS) have been providing unique data at high spectral and spatial resolution for performing advanced mapping as well to support satellite mission development and verification (e.g., [49,50,51,52]). This study aims to present the exploitation of data gathered from two currently orbiting spaceborne imaging spectrometers, PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa (PRISMA) and the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS), for water quality parameters retrieval, bottom type mapping and monitoring emergent macrophytes in four Italian water bodies, encompassing deep clear lakes, turbid shallow lakes and river dammed reservoirs

PRISMA and DESIS Missions

Exploitation of PRISMA and DESIS Products for Water Quality Mapping

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