Use of digital multispectral videography to assess seagrass distribution in San Quintín Bay, Baja California, Mexico;Uso de videografía multiespectral digital para evaluar la distributión del pasto marino en Bahía San Quintín, Baja California, México

Ciencias Marinas

Volumn 30, Issue 1 A, 2004, Pages 47-60

  Ward, David H ^a   Tibbitts, T Lee ^a   Morton, Alexandra ^b   Carrera González, Eduardo ^c   Kempka, Richard ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Ducks Unlimited Incorporated   (United States)

^c Ducks Unlimited de Mexico ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Airborne digital multispectral videography; Ruppia maritima; San Quint n Bay; Seagrass distribution; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AIRBORNE SURVEY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SEAGRASS; VIDEOGRAPHY;

BAJA CALIFORNIA NORTE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SAN QUINTIN BAY;

HALOPHILA; MAMMALIA; RUPPIA; RUPPIA MARITIMA; ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0842345901     PISSN: 01853880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v30i11.121     Document Type: Article

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