Information about water quality parameters such as turbidity, chlorophyll-a concentration, suspended sediment concentration, water plants (hyacinth) and temperature can be derived from EO data. Such observations can not completely replace in-situ networks (availability of in situ data is essential to calibrate and validate the retrieval algorithm), but may complement them, offering cost-effective solutions. EO-based water quality products represent in fact an up-scaling in space and time of the conventional field measurements and may capture the spatio-temporal variability of critical lake water quality parameters more accurately than the current monitoring programs.
Lake Surface Temperature and Water Quality
 | Relative Chlorophyll-A Product over Lake Manzalah in Egypt, generated with MERIS(250m) from 2009-07-29. |
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 | Chlorophyll concentration of Lake Chad derived from ENVISAT MERIS on 5th November 2007 |
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 | Total suspended matter in Lake Chad derived from ENVISAT MERIS on 5th November 2007 |
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 | Yellow matter in Lake Chad derived from ENVISAT MERIS on 5th November 2007 |
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 | Total chlorophyll in Lake Victoria. |
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 | Total Suspended Matter in Lake Victoria derived from ENVISAT MERIS scene acquired on 4th September 2006. |
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 | Water hyacinths on the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria derived from ENVISAT ASAR time series: 2nd March, 26th May, 4th Aug, 17th Nov 2006. |
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 | Relative Total Dissolved Solids in Lake Manzalah, Egypt derived from ENVISAT MERIS 11th September 2009. |
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 | Relative Turbidity of Lake Manzalah, Egypt derived from ENVISAT MERIS 29th July 2009. |
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