Title

Using Remote Sensing-Based Carlson Index Mapping To Assess Hurricane And Drought Effects On Lake Trophic State

Abstract

Lake Okeechobee, the second largest freshwater lake in the United States, is the source of fresh water to the Everglades. To the north, in the Kissimmee River Basin, major land uses are ranching and dairy farms, and as a result, excessive nutrient loads of phosphorus have entered the lake for more than three decades, resulting in cultural eutrophication. About 40% of the entire lake bed is covered with black, carbonate, organic phosphorus-enriched mud (Mehta et al. 1989). This phosphorusladen sediment can be resuspended into the water column by wind and wave action (Maceina and Soballe 1990) and can be a primary source of phosphorus to the water column (Evans 1994) through the diffusion and desorption processes, which is highly related to the shear stress of the sediment bed.

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Environmental Remote Sensing and Systems Analysis

Number of Pages

9-34

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1201/b11702

Socpus ID

84926037409 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84926037409

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