Novo, E.M., Hansom, J.D. and Curran, P., 1989. The effect of
sediment type on the relationship between reflectance and
suspended sediment concentration. International Journal of
Remote Sensing, 10 (7), pp. 1283-1289. Full text not available
from this repository. Official URL:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a... The use of
remotely-sensed optical data to estimate the suspended sediment
concentration (SSC) of water is dependent upon the correlation
between SSC and reflectance. The strength of this relationship
was hypothesized to vary with sediment type, as it is known that
sediments, when dry, differ in their particle size
distributions, colour and therefore reflectance properties. To
test this, the reflectance of pure water with four
concentrations of white clay and red silt were measured in the
laboratory using a spectroradiometer. The correlation between
SSC and reflectance varied with wavelength and sediment type.
For white clay the correlations were very high (r0·98) in
visible and near-