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Retrieval of suspended sediment concentrations in the turbid water of the Upper Yangtze River using Landsat ETM+

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For the remote areas like the Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region (LRGR), it is hard to measure the suspended sediment concentrations (SSC). This study attempted to estimate SSC by employing the three atmospheric correction methods: COST, iCOST (modified from COST) and TZB5 (newly proposed). TZB5 can more accurately determine the atmospheric transmittance along the sun-ground surface path (TAUz) from the solar zenith angle (TZ), and it uses Band 5 to eliminate the path radiance of Bands 1–4. The water surface reflectance at Band 4 obtained using TZB5 has a stronger relation with SSC within the range of 0–3000 mg/L. The developed algorithms could accurately estimate SSC directly from ETM+ images in the turbid Upper Yangtze River, and were also effective in the Middle Yangtze River.

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  1. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore

    Wang JianJun & Lu XiXi

  2. Department of Environmental Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, China

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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2003CB415105-6) and National University of Singapore (Grant No. R-109-000-034-112)

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Wang, J., Lu, X. & Zhou, Y. Retrieval of suspended sediment concentrations in the turbid water of the Upper Yangtze River using Landsat ETM+. Chin. Sci. Bull. 52 (Suppl 2), 273–280 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-007-7012-6

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