Ocean color remote sensing of seagrass and bathymetry in the Bahamas Banks by high-resolution airborne imagery

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages 444-455

  Dierssen, Heidi M ^a   Zimmerman, Richard C ^a   Leathers, Robert A ^b   Downes, T Valerie ^b   Davis, Curtiss O ^b  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BATHYMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SEAFLOOR; SEAGRASS;

HALOPHILA; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 0037258004     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.1_part_2.0444     Document Type: Article

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