Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality

Abstract

Navel gazing at remote sensing of inland and coastal waters from space Environmental monitoring from space The remote sensing definition of water quality The plight of remotely monitoring case 2 water quality The irony of remote sensing End-users of aquatic remote sensing products 1.6 Aquatic remote sensing products What went wrong with the great potential? Models, models, models, models The inevitable compromise of aquatic remote sensing Some concluding comments Remote sensing of inland water quality: a science primer Remotely sensing the Earth from space Remotely sensing aquatic color from space Remotely sensing inland and coastal water quality from space The scientific methodology (forward and inverse models) Concluding remarks The science of remotely sensing case 2 water quality Aquatic optics and water color Case 1 and case 2 waters Inherent optical properties (optical cross section spectra) Forward and inverse optical modeling Trans-spectral processes Remote sensing reflectance The status of remote sensing science Applications of water quality products to environmental monitoring What do environmental end-users want? What do environmental end-users need? What can environmental end-users be given? Benefits of incorporating remote estimates of water quality into environmental monitoring protocols: value-added remote sensing Inland and coastal (case 2) water quality products Providers and users: a marketplace reality check Applications of inland and coastal water color products Mapping water clarity Mapping chlorophyll concentrations (and primary production) of mid-oceanic (case 1) waters Mapping chlorophyll concentrations (and primary production) of optically complex inland and coastal (case 2) waters Monitoring the extent and progress of blue-green algae blooms and red tides Delineating the presence of inorganic turbidity in inland and coastal waters Monitoring the extent and progress of marine and inland oil spills Delineating the regional groundwater discharge, recharge, and transition areas (and temporal changes therein) Monitoring inland and coastal water quantity Recording natural and anthropogenic changes in shoreline/coastal features Recording changing configurations of continental ecozones Seagrass meadows: location and spatial distribution of substrate and substrate vegetation A lost opportunity to present an environmental manager with a compromise between science and usage of science Some comments on water quality monitoring Crystal-ball gazing at remote sensing of inland and coastal waters from space The United States, Canada, and space Addressing the chasm between Canadian inland and coastal water quality products and their potential end-users EOADP and GRIP The compact airborne spectrographic imager (CASI) Directions taken at CSIRO Suspended sediments recognized as independent CPAs? Back to the future with red wavelengths? Truth in advertising of remote sensing products Environmental science and the vagaries of populism Three examples of controversial environmental issues Quality science emergent from fear-instilling rhetoric Ground-level ultraviolet radiation and natural waters Environmental monitoring from space and controversy