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Exploring Blooms from Space: the CyAN Satellite Imaging Project
Citation:
Salls, W. Exploring Blooms from Space: the CyAN Satellite Imaging Project. 2020 NC Lake Management Society Fall Conference, Virtual, November 10, 2020.
Impact/Purpose:
Overview of satellite research supporting the detection and monitoring of cyanobacteria in the largest US freshwater lakes and reservoirs.
Description:
This presentation summarizes tools and information developed to help resource managers more fully characterize the trajectory, extent, and health impacts of HABs. Resource managers will be better able to assess vulnerability of waterbodies to HAB events, identify early indicators of HAB formation, and assess the likely magnitude and spatial extent of blooms. Research will evaluate and utilize a variety of methodologies to probe HAB dynamics, ranging from the molecular scale to satellite based, to provide users with a suite of tools and information to address various needs. The research incorporates large-scale surveillance datasets such as satellite-based coverages, as well as those from EPA’s National Lake Assessment and National Rivers and Streams Assessment to map and characterize populations, assess health impacts, toxin distributions, and their frequencies. The research further investigates environmental factors promoting HAB formation and toxin distributional processes through experimental and associative studies and synthesizes information from these and other sources to help estimate context-specific HAB risk.
