Use of Thematic Mapper data to assess water quality in Green Bay and central Lake Michigan.

The major objective of this study was to assess the technical feasibility of using TM data to evaluate, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the general water quality of southern Green Bay and central Lake Michigan. An empirical approach of relating TM data with simultaneously acquired 'sea truth' data through multiple linear regression analysis was employed. Subsequently, the regression models were used to prepare digital cartographic products depicting the water quality and thermal distributions over the entire study area.-from Author