Monitoring marine water quality of Sicily by means of remotely sensed imagery
- Authors: La Loggia, G; Capodici, F; Ciraolo, G; Maltese, A; Nizza, S; Pampalone, V; Scordo, A; Tulone, M; Vitagliano, A
- Publication year: 2008
- Type: Proceedings
- Key words: MODIS, clorofilla-a, turbidity, total suspended solids
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/48837
Abstract
Within the framework of the GEOGRID research project, a semi-automatic computational chain has been implemented in order to map the time evolution of marine water quality, around Sicily island, by means of satellite images. To this aim a set of MODIS (TERRA and AQUA) multispectral images has been acquired. An automatic system to georeference and calibrate the images has been implemented. All the procedures to map clorophill-a, total suspended solids and turbidity come from the literature, whereas models parameters have been calibrated by means of in situ measurements.