Full text: Proceedings of Symposium on Remote Sensing and Photo Interpretation (Volume 1)

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LAKE EUTROPHICATION AS INDICATED 
BY ERTS SATELLITE IMAGERY 
Dr, James P. Scherz 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 
Dr, John F, Van Domelen 
Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont 
Dr. Kenneth Holtje 
U.S. Forest Service, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
William Johnson 
State University of New York, Syracuse, New York 
ABSTRACT 
Light reflectance from water in the laboratory 
always correlates to the water quality parameter of turbidity. 
This turbidity is caused by suspended solids in the water and 
for a particular type of material there is a good correlation 
between the weight of these suspended solids and turbidity. 
However, this correlation is different for different types of 
material. When this suspended material is living green matter 
as in an eutrophic lake, the changes in reflectance can be 
detected as changes in brightness on a particular aerial image. 
Two test sites have shown that there is indeed a good correla 
tion between the brightness on an ERTS image and lake eutrophi 
cation. 
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG 
Von Wasser reflecktiertes Licht in Laborexperimenten 
steht in direkter Beziehung zu dem Wassergüteparameter Trübheit. 
Diese Trübheit ist durch schwebende Stoffe verursacht und für 
bestimmte Materien steht in direkter Beziehung zu der Menge des 
Stoffes im Wasser. Diese beziehung ist jedoch unterschiedlich 
für verschiedene Stoffe. Wenn das schwebende Material lebender 
Grünstoff ist, wie in einem eutrophishen See, kann die veränderte 
Reflektion in unterschiedlicher Hellheit an einer Luftaufnahme 
erkannt werden. Zwei Versuchsstandorte zeigen hohe Korelation 
zwischen der Hellheit eines ERTS Bildes und Seeeutrophierung.
	        
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