Yingcheng LU^1,2*, Weixian QIAN³, Chunguang LYU², Qingjiu TIAN², Dongming LU³, and Shaojie SUN²

¹Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
²International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
³Lab 404, EEOT, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

(Received June 14, 2013; Revised August 9, 2013; Accepted September 19, 2013)

A laboratory experiment was designed to collect the spectral reflectance of water containing suspended particulate matter (SPM) in terms of its concentration. By performing surface-fitting analysis, an empirical relationship among the wavelength, reflectance, and concentration of SPM in water was obtained. The results showed that a linear effect of the spectral wavelength on spectral reflectance with increasing concentration of SPM in water, and the relationship between the reflectance and concentration of SPM in water is quadratic. Hyperspectral remote sensing is expected to play an important role in estimating the concentration of SPM in water.

Key words: spectrum, optical remote sensing, suspended particulate matter, spectral response

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