Journal
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
Volume 79, Issue 1, Pages 116-122Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00244-9
Keywords
computational fluid dynamics; phytoplankton; chlorophyll index; Loch Leven
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A remotely sensed image of Loch Leven, a shallow meso-cutrophic take in Central East Scotland, UK, revealed a strong gradient in chlorophyll-alpha (chl-alpha) concentration. As a means of interpreting the spatial distribution of chl-alpha in this image, a combined three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and ecological model was run using estimates of the environmental and planktonic conditions concurrent with and preceding the time of image acquisition. The post facto modelling of the dynamics of the lake produced spatial distributions of surface chl-alpha that were consistent with that evident in the remotely sensed image, It is proposed that CFD modelling benefits the interpretation of remotely sensed images of water bodies in that it may be used to infer the causes of the spatial distributions evident in the remotely sensed imagery. This is because modelling extends the analysis into the temporal and vertical domains. However, the value of combining CFD with remote sensing is limited by the quality and quantity of data available through surface observation and remote sensing, and the implications of this to the integration of CFD with remote sensing are discussed. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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