A validation of satellite derived cyanobacteria detections with state reported events and recreation advisories across U.S. lakes.

ABSTRACT: Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) negatively affect ecological, human, and animal health. Traditional methods of validating satellite algorithms with data from water samples are often inhibited by the expense of quantifying cyanobacteria indicators in the field and the lack of public data. However, state recreation advisories and other recorded events of cyanoHAB occurrence reported by local authorities can serve as an independent and publicly available dataset for validation. State recreation advisories were defined as a period delimited by a start and end date where a warning was issued due to detections of cyanoHABs over a state's risk threshold. State reported events were defined as any event that was documented with a single date related to cyanoHABs. This study examined

SUBMITTER: Whitman P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature