First month into the SoEE program

It is more than two months into the SoEE program, so I know I am a bit late to write about my experience in the last two months. But I will anyway try to write in segments what all has been done in the past two months.

So, I had begun my work by some basic literature review. I had started with reading "EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF SENTINEL 2 DATA FOR WATER QUALITY ESTIMATION - ISMAIL KARAOUI ET. AL. (2019)" where the authors talked about how Sentinel 2 data can be used to empirically model the water quality parameters in the Bin El Ouidane Reservoir in Morocco. The model equations were derived based on correlation and regression analysis on the in-situ data and the satellite data. I had initially chosen this paper to go through because my ideas related to this project were like the approach followed here.

I also went through some of the papers which described the utility of OLCI Sentinel-3 data so that I get a wide approach of Sentinel products. I concluded, since the resolution of Sentinel-3 products is about 300m, it won’t serve the purpose of the SoEE project.

In addition, I looked for the C2RCC SNAP tool references to have an idea on the machine learning domain of the project. It was initially decided to generate some sample maps for the validation step of the project, which was another reason to explore this SNAP processor.

Some of the other papers which I went through to completely dive into the subject matter of this project are as follows:

·   Mohammad Haji Gholizadeh, Assefa M. Melesse, And Lakshmi Reddi (2016) “A Comprehensive Review on Water Quality Parameters Estimation Using Remote Sensing Techniques.” Sensors 16, 1298

·  Gidudu Anthony, Banura Constance, And Namugga Angella (2016) “Monitoring Water Quality on Lake Victoria Using Modis Imagery.” Ijtd Volume 3, Issue 1

·    Miguel Potes, Gonçalo Rodrigues, Alexandra Marchã Penha, Maria Helena Novais, Maria João Costa, Rui Salgado, And Maria Manuela Morais (2018) “Use of Sentinel 2 – Msi For Water Quality Monitoring at Alqueva Reservoir, Portugal” Proc. Iahs, 380, 73-79

·   Ismail Karaoui, Abdelkrim Arioua, Abdelghani Boudhar, Mohammed Hssaisoune, Sabri El Mouatassime, Kamal Ait Ouhamchich, Driss Elhamdouni (2019) “Evaluating the Potential of Sentinel-2 Satellite Images for Water Quality Characterization Of Artificial Reservoirs:  The Bin El Ouidane Reservoir Case Study (Morocco).” Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management Vol 7, Issue 1

·     Kaire Toming, Tiit Kutser, Rivo Uiboupin, Age Arikas, Kaimo Vahter And Birgot Paavel (2017) “Mapping Water Quality Parameters with Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument Imagery in The Baltic Sea.” Remote Sens., 9, 1070

·  Brockmann Carsten, Doerffer Roland, Peters Marco, Stelzer Kerstin, Embacher Sabine, Ruescas Ana (2019) “Evolution of The C2rcc Neural Network for Sentinel 2 And 3 For the Retrieval of Ocean Colour Products in Normal and Extreme Optically Complex Waters.” Http://Step.Esa.Int/

·    Kel N. Markert, Calla M. Schmidt, Robert E. Griffin, Africa I. Flores, Ate Poortinga, David S. Saah, Rebekke E. Muench, Nicholas E. Clinton, Farrukh Chishtie, Kritsana Kityuttachai, Paradis Someth, Eric R. Anderson, Aekkapol Aekakkararungroj And David J. Ganz (2018) “Historical and Operational Monitoring of Surface Sediments in the Lower Mekong Basin Using Landsat and Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing.” Remote Sens., 10

In a crux, I went through the in-depth reviewing of related literature in the whole one month into the SoEE program.