A reflectance-based water quality index and its application to examine degradation of river water quality in a rapidly urbanising megacity

The water quality in rivers around Dhaka is deteriorating very fast given extensive sources of pollutants associated with rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. This paper introduced a water quality index (WQI) utilising Landsat bands 1 to 3 (0.45 to 0.67 µm) against band 5 (1.55 to 1.75 µm). The...

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Main Authors: M Sufia Sultana, Ashraf Dewan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-10-01
Series:Environmental Advances
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765721000685