Creating Landscape-Scale Maps of Coral Reef Cover for Marine Reserve Management from High-Resolution Multispectral Remote Sensing
Mishra, Deepak R., Jones, Daniel O.B. and Relles, Noelle J. (2012) Creating Landscape-Scale Maps of Coral Reef Cover for Marine Reserve Management from High-Resolution Multispectral Remote Sensing. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 49, (2), 251-274. (doi:10.2747/1548-1603.49.2.251).
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Description/Abstract
New methods are needed for the study of coral reefs, as they are changing rapidly. Satellite remote sensing has become a common method for benthic mapping with advances in satellites and sensors and as methods are devised to account for atmospheric and water-column effects. Images from the QuickBird satellite have proven useful in reef mapping. Sand was distinguished from coral with an overall accuracy of 75% on the shallow reef off of the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Coral and sand had user accuracies of 50% and 90%, respectively. Increased samples of field-collected data would further increase the accuracies of such classifications.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1548-1603 (print) |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GC Oceanography Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | National Oceanography Centre (NERC) > Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems |
| Item ID: | 337019 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2012 15:46 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 00:08 |
| Contributors: | Mishra, Deepak R. (Author) Jones, Daniel O.B. (Author) Relles, Noelle J. (Author) |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/337019 |
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