| The lagoon of New Caledonia is subject to various pressures, including terrigenous stream inputs. Their evolution – extent, intensity – can be studied through parameters such as ocean color, depending on turbidity or phytoplankton concentration. Satellite imagery is more and more used for this purpose. As the Sentinel-2 (S2) mission, with its satellites providing ten meters-resolution images, has been recently launched, we worked on the characterisation of lagoon color using these products. After testing the performance of existing algorithms for New Caledonia, initially applied to satellites other than S2, we tried to establish a new turbidity algorithm based on field data (measures in the South-West lagoon of New Caledonia and the lagoon near Koumac in... |
