Table 2.

Best fitting regression models between total suspended matter (TSM) concentrations and normalized radiance (base: January 2005, Taihu Lake area) of 250 m single band, band difference, band ratio and band normalized difference of moderate resolution imaging spectrometer (MODIS).

Retrieval Models	R	s.e.	F
Ln(TSM)= 0.015 × b1 + 0.003 ×b12 −0.282	0.8712	0.439	256.310
$\mathit{\text{Ln}}(\mathit{\text{TSM}})=166.960\times \frac{1}{b3-b1}-2.192$	0.7906	0.546	272.919
$\mathit{\text{Ln}}(\mathit{\text{TSM}})=-16.997\times \frac{b3}{b1}+3.326\times {(\frac{b3}{b1})}^2+23.681$	0.8725	0.417	292.994
$\mathit{\text{Ln}}(\mathit{\text{TSM}})=-29.707\times (\frac{b3-b1}{b3+b1})+41.886\times {(\frac{b3-b1}{b3+b1})}^3+11.358$	0.8736	0.418	291.665

s.e. standard error of the estimate, N = 166, P < 0.001; bn is band n.