Long-term remote monitoring of total suspended matter concentration in Lake Taihu.pdf

Remote Sensing of Environment 164 (2015) 43–56 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Remote Sensing of Environment j ourna l homepage: www.e lsev ie r .com/ locate / rseLong-term remote monitoring of total suspended matter concentration in Lake Taihu using 250 m MODIS-Aqua dataKun Shi a, Yunlin Zhang a,?, Guangwei Zhu a, Xiaohan Liu a,b, Yongqiang Zhou a,b, Hai Xu a, Boqiang Qin a, Ge Liu c, Yunmei Li c a Taihu Lake Laboratory Ecosystem Research Station, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China c Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210046, China? Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 25 fax: + E-mail address: ylzhang@ (Y. Zhang). /10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.029 0034-4257/? 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.a b s t r a c ta r t i c l e i n f oArticle history: Received 13 October 2014 Received in revised form 11 February 2015 Accepted 25 February 2015 Available online xxxx Keywords: MODIS Lake Taihu Total suspended matter Wind-induced resuspension Shallow turbid lakeWehave developed and validated a robust empirical model for estimating the concentrations of total suspended matter (TSM) in Lake Taihu (China), a large turbid inlandwater body. Thismodel was generated usingModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS-Aqua) medium-resolution (250 m) data gathered from 2003 to 2013 and in situ data collected from a number of cruise surveys. A strong significant correlate relationship be- tween the in situ TSM data and the atmospherically corrected MODIS-Aqua remote sensing reflectance at the 645 nm band (Rrs(645)) was found (R2 = 0.70, p b 0.001, n=150). From these data, a local TSMmodel was de- veloped for Lake Taihu. Long-term TSM distribution maps retrieved from the MODIS-Aqua data demonstrated marked