Monitoring of water eutrofization in model reservoir of Czech republic by remote sensing data

Present study compares possibilities of monitoring water eutrophication in the Czech republic using remote sensing. The theoretical part describes basic spectral characteristics of water and their change caused by eutrophication. Chlorophyll-a was chosen as the quantitative indicator of trophic rate. Methods of obtaining value of chlorophyll-a content from scanner TM and ETM+ Landsat satellite data and from in situ measurements data are described. Three regression equations, that employ variety of channels or channel ratios of Landsat data were utilized. The regression equations were applied on three satellite images of model area of Vltava's steps (water reservoirs of Lipno, Hnevkovice, Korensko and Orlík) from the years 2001, 2004 and 2007. The regression equation ln(chl-a) = a.TM2 + b.TM3 + c.TM4 +d gives the best results, where the determination coefficient varies from 0,245 to 0,422. Maps showing distribution of chlorophyll-a concentration in water reservoir Lipno and in the part of water reservoir Orlík were created based on obtained results. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org