As the inland and near-coastal waters are under the strongest anthropogenic impact there is need for a better way to monitor their ecological status. European network FP7 project WaterS focuses on creating conditions for strategic dynamic partnerships in the form of long-term cooperation between three research groups and three enterprises with unique complementary expertise and tools. The resea...

Remote sensing of coastal and inland waters requires sensors to have a high spatial resolution to cover the spatial variation of biogeochemical properties in fine scales. High spatial-resolution sensors, however, are usually equipped with spectral bands that are wide in bandwidth (50 nm or wider). In this study, based on numerical simulations of hyperspectral remote-sensing reflectance of optic...

Concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen in surface waters are being regulated in the United States and European Union. Human activity has raised the concentrations of these nutrients, leading to eutrophication of inland waters, which causes nuisance growth of algae and other aquatic plants. Control of phosphorus often has had the highest priority because of its presumed leading role in limiti...

We present here results supporting the use of Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS)-based Near Infrared-Red algorithms for estimating chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentration in complex coastal waters. The objective of the study was to test the potential of universal applicability of NIR-Red algorithms, calibrated with (a) radiometric measurements and in situ data from inland waters in Nebr...

Concentrations of chlorophyll and suspended sediment are two important optically active parameters of inland water quality. In the open ocean, these two parameters can be effectively quantified by empirical algorithms relating remote sensor radiances to surface concentrations. In inland waters, however, the task becomes difficult due to the presence of suspended sediment and dissolved organic m...

This paper presents an initial study of the autopilot development of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The USV named Springer is being developed to carry out pollutant tracking, and environmental and hydrographic surveys in rivers, reservoirs, inland waterways and coastal waters, particularly where shallow waters prevail. The catamaran shaped autonomous vessel is modelled as a two input, singl...