"We are really lucky that we have the chance to participate in this year's LakeLab experiment," says Carmen Cillero Castro and adds: "Here we can examine 25 water bodies with different water qualities in a confined space and may furthermore access all data collected by other teams during the experiment." With the 25 water bodies, the Spanish remote sensing specialist means Lake Stechlin plus the enclosures of the LakeLab, literally 24 lakes in the lake. She and her colleague, Federico Cheda, characterize the various water bodies from above with a drone (see photo above) which is particularly advantageous when clouds prevent data acquisition from satellites. Their drone is loaded with 3 different multispectral and hyperspectral sensors and enables them, for example, to detect and quantify harmful algal blooms in drinking water reservoirs at an early stage. [...]

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