Estimation of suspended sediments using ocean color sensors, like MODIS, has been a major goal in our research of Mayaguez Bay, at western Puerto Rico. A large effort by Vilmaliz Rodriguez, master student of the GERS Lab, is finally giving good results toward that objective. She has tried several approaches in order to use MODIS Band 1 for that purpose and after some preliminary validation she is proposing a site-specific algorithm. This work is part of her thesis, but it was also presented in the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Instrumentation, Measurement, Circuits and Systems. This conference was held in Hangzhou, China, during May 20-22 of 2009. The presentation was titled “Estimating Total Suspended Sediments in Tropical Open Bay Conditions using MODIS” and it was published in the proceedings of the conference. An extended version of this work was also submitted for publication in a peer-review journal through the conference organizers. This represents the second submitted paper for Vilmaliz. The first paper was titled “Remote Sensing of Suspended Sediments in a Tropical Open Bay”, which is currently under revision in the Remote Sensing of the Environment journal.
