Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman

Conventional water quality estimation of the river requires in situ measurements and laboratory analysis which are extremely demanding in terms of time consuming and cost. In remote sensing technology, water turbidity can be estimated by the capability of remotely sensed spectral properties such as...

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Main Author: Abdul Rahman, Nurul Adila
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Published: 2018
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spelling my-uitm-ir.191312018-10-02T06:03:43Z Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman 2018-02 Abdul Rahman, Nurul Adila Geographic information systems Turbidity Artificial satellites in navigation Conventional water quality estimation of the river requires in situ measurements and laboratory analysis which are extremely demanding in terms of time consuming and cost. In remote sensing technology, water turbidity can be estimated by the capability of remotely sensed spectral properties such as by using Landsat 8 OLI. Nowadays, a local regression approach of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is widely used to improve the global approach such as linear regression method. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess satellite based water turbidity of Landsat 8 OLI with in situ measurement in Perlis River during Southwest Monsoon by using GWR technique. The objectives are to estimate water turbidity from Landsat OLI and to assess the estimated water turbidity with in situ measurement using GWR. The estimation of water turbidity from Landsat 8 is done by the extraction of satellite DN and spectral reflectance of Ultra Blue, Green, and Red bands a based on water sampling locations respectively. With 30 samples of water sampling, the assessment of satellite based water turbidity is carried out using GWR. The result shows strong correlation for both local relationship between in situ turbidity data and (I) DN of green band (R2 = 0.546) and spectral reflectance of Red Band (R2 =0.745). Thus, the Landsat DN of green band and spectral reflectance of Red Band are suitable to estimate water turbidity. The finding of this study shows, the local relationship between satellite based and in situ water turbidity can be determined. Thus, remotely sensed of spectral band is possible to be utilized for water turbidity estimation. 2018-02 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19131/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19131/14/TD_NURUL%20ADILA%20ABDUL%20RAHMAN%20AP%20R%2018_5.pdf text en public dphil degree Universiti Teknologi Mara Perlis Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
topic Geographic information systems
Turbidity
Artificial satellites in navigation
spellingShingle Geographic information systems
Turbidity
Artificial satellites in navigation
Abdul Rahman, Nurul Adila
Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman
description Conventional water quality estimation of the river requires in situ measurements and laboratory analysis which are extremely demanding in terms of time consuming and cost. In remote sensing technology, water turbidity can be estimated by the capability of remotely sensed spectral properties such as by using Landsat 8 OLI. Nowadays, a local regression approach of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is widely used to improve the global approach such as linear regression method. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess satellite based water turbidity of Landsat 8 OLI with in situ measurement in Perlis River during Southwest Monsoon by using GWR technique. The objectives are to estimate water turbidity from Landsat OLI and to assess the estimated water turbidity with in situ measurement using GWR. The estimation of water turbidity from Landsat 8 is done by the extraction of satellite DN and spectral reflectance of Ultra Blue, Green, and Red bands a based on water sampling locations respectively. With 30 samples of water sampling, the assessment of satellite based water turbidity is carried out using GWR. The result shows strong correlation for both local relationship between in situ turbidity data and (I) DN of green band (R2 = 0.546) and spectral reflectance of Red Band (R2 =0.745). Thus, the Landsat DN of green band and spectral reflectance of Red Band are suitable to estimate water turbidity. The finding of this study shows, the local relationship between satellite based and in situ water turbidity can be determined. Thus, remotely sensed of spectral band is possible to be utilized for water turbidity estimation.
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author Abdul Rahman, Nurul Adila
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title Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman
title_short Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman
title_full Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman
title_fullStr Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; GWR approach / Nurul Adila Abdul Rahman
title_sort assessment of satellite based water turbidity using ; gwr approach / nurul adila abdul rahman
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Mara Perlis
granting_department Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying
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