Water Quality Monitoring by Satellite Remote Sensing Data

An Introduction of Tokyo Bay Project by Some Members of Self Governing Body

Abstract

We investigated the relation between the water quality and Landsat TM data observed in Tokyo bay from 1986 to 1992, and the following results were obtained.
1) A high correlation between surface water temperature and Band 6 was found.
2) It was also shown that there was a high correlation between observed water quality (chlorophyll-a, transparency) and calculated water quality with Band 1 and Band 4 of TM data.
3) Images of surface water quality were obtained succesfully by using the relation of observed data with Landsat TM data.