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Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 3 Four algorithms for detecting harmful algal blooms

From: Use of GOCI-II images for detection of harmful algal blooms in the East China Sea

Algorithm

MODIS

GOCI-II

Threshold value

References

\({\text{RI}}=\frac{{R}_{rs}({\lambda }^{+})-{R}_{rs}({\lambda }^{-})}{{R}_{rs}(\lambda )-{R}_{rs}({\lambda }^{-})}\)

\({\lambda }^{+}=555\)

\({\lambda }^{-}=443\)

\(\lambda=488\)

\({\lambda }^{+}=555\)

\({\lambda }^{-}=443\)

\(\lambda=490\)

RI > 2.8

Lou and Hu (2014)

\({\text{SS}}(\lambda )={R}_{rs}\left(\lambda \right)-{R}_{rs}\left({\lambda }^{-}\right)-({R}_{rs}({\lambda }^{+})-{R}_{rs}({\lambda }^{-}))\times \frac{\lambda -{\lambda }^{-}}{{\lambda }^{+}-{\lambda }^{-}}\)

\({\lambda }^{+}=555\)

\({\lambda }^{-}=488\)

\(\lambda=531\)

\({\lambda }^{+}=555\)

\({\lambda }^{-}=490\)

\(\lambda=510\)

SS (510) < 0

Wynne et al. (2008)

\({\text{LHR}}=\frac{{\text{LH}}({\lambda }_{1})}{{\text{LH}}({\lambda }_{2})}\)

    

\({\text{LH}}({\lambda }_{i})={R}_{rs}({\lambda }_{i})-{R}_{rs}(660)-({R}_{rs}(745)-{R}_{rs}(660))\times \frac{({\lambda }_{i}-660)}{(745-660)}\)

*1

\({\lambda }_{1}=709\)

\({\lambda }_{2}=680\)

LHR > 0.6

Tao et al. (2011)

\({R}_{AB}=\frac{{R}_{rs}({\lambda }^{+})}{{R}_{rs}({\lambda }^{-})}\)

\({\lambda }^{+}\)=555

\({\lambda }^{-}\)= 531

\({\lambda }^{+}=555\)

\({\lambda }^{-}= 510\)

\({R}_{AB}\) > 1.25

Tao et al. (2015)

  1. *1 LHR method is developed for MERIS satellite (\({\lambda }_{1}\)=709, \({\lambda }_{2}\)=681)