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Annette Hilton2
Jesse Bausell 2
Raphael Kudela
(US EPA)
Area of Study
PCBs problem in SF bay
Public health concern, fish at
unsafe levels
Drinking water levels: 0.0005
mg/L (500,000 pg/L)
Fish: 10 ppb
Goals
Remotely detect PCBs in the SF bay
Correlate PCBs with detectable optical property
! Correlate PCBs with sediment in the SF bay
(Google Earth)
Methods
PCBSediment
algorithm
SedimentReflectance (Image)
algorithm
PCBSediment
PCBReflectance (Image)
and
Detect Pollution!
Landsat 8
9 images from
2015
SedimentReflectance (Image)
Landsat 8
Satellite instrument
30 m resolution
High temporal
resolution, images 16
days
AVIRIS
Airborne instrument
16 m resolution
Low temporal resolution,
images 4-5 times/year
Methods
SedimentReflectance (Image)
algorithm
10^(0.001*Rrs657 + 1.277)
PCBSediment
Sediment Map
algorithm
7.320*Rrs654 + 434.1
PCBReflectance (Image)
and
Detect Pollution!
Landsat 8 2015
units: pg/L
units: pg/L
units: pg/L
Acknowledgements
Emily Schaller
Jesse Bausell
Raphael Kudela
Oceans 11
All of SARP 2016
NASA & NSERC
Thank you for making this
research possible!