Proactive management of estuarine algal blooms using an automated monitoring buoy coupled with an artificial neural network ? ??
An autonomous monitoring buoy is deployed to measure estuarine water quality parameters. Chlorophyll-a, temperature and salinity have been monitored at 15min intervals since 2002. Artificial Neural Network predicts Chlorophyll-a concentrations one, three and seven days ahead. A proactive, rather than reactive, estuarine algal bloom management approach is proposed.
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