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Open AccessPredicting lake dissolved organic carbon at a global scale
The pool of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), is one of the main regulators of the ecology and biogeochemistry of inland water ecosystems, and an important loss term in the carbon budgets of land ecosystems. We ...
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Management Options to Improve Water Quality in Lake Peipsi: Insights from Large Scale Models and Remote Sensing
Nutrient pollution causes frequent blooms of potentially harmful cyanobacteria in Lake Peipsi (Estonia/Russia). Although external nutrient loading has reduced since the 1990s, lake water quality has barely imp...
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Resolving biogeochemical processes in lakes using remote sensing
Remote sensing helps foster our understanding of inland water processes allowing a synoptic view of water quality parameters. In the context of global monitoring of inland waters, we demonstrate the benefit of...
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Map** Baltic Sea shallow water environments with airborne remote sensing
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Map** Seagrass Biomass with Photo-Library Method
Validation of benthic habitat maps produced from remote sensing imagery is quite time consuming and expensive. Validating maps of seagrass biomass is even more sophisticated and time consuming as the seagrass ...
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Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Estimate the Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Absorption Coefficient in Lakes
Given the importance of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) for the structure and function of lake ecosystems, a method that could estimate the amount of CDOM in lake waters over large geographic areas wou...
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Imaging Spectrometry of Water