Creating Landscape-Scale Maps of Coral Reef Cover for Marine Reserve Management from High-Resolution Multispectral Remote Sensing
Creating Landscape-Scale Maps of Coral Reef Cover for Marine Reserve Management from High-Resolution Multispectral Remote Sensing
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.
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Mishra, Deepak R.
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Jones, Daniel O.B.
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Relles, Noelle J.
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2012
Mishra, Deepak R.
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Jones, Daniel O.B.
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Relles, Noelle J.
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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), .
(doi:10.2747/1548-1603.49.2.251).
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.
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Published date: 2012
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Marine Biogeochemistry
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/337019
ISSN: 1548-1603
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Daniel O.B. Jones
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Noelle J. Relles
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