DETERMINATION OF WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS FROM SATELLITE DATA ON INLAND AND MARINE COASTAL WATERS

Standard algorithms for determination of water quality parameters from spaceborne dataare developed for open oceans as optically most simple waters and provided byNASA and ESA. However, they are untenable for inland waters as well as coastalmarine waters because of their optical complexity. We developed at the NansenCenter (NIERSC) new sophisticated algorithms allowing to solve this problem. Ouralgorithms employ such advanced techniques as multivariate optimization andartificial neural networks.