Quantification of two decades of shallow-water coral reef habitat decline in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary using Landsat data (1984-2002)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3388-3399

  Palandro, David A ^a   Andréfouët, Serge ^b   Hu, Chuanmin ^a   Hallock, Pamela ^a   Müller Karger, Frank E ^a   Dustan, Phillip ^c   Callahan, Michael K ^d   Kranenburg, Christine ^a   Beaver, Carl R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^c School of Business   (United States)

^d FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Change detection; Classification; Coral reef habitat; CREMP; Habitat fragmentation; Landsat; Phase shift; Strategy shift

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOSYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES;

CARIBBEAN; CHANGE DETECTION; CORAL REEF; CREMP; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSAT; STRATEGY SHIFT;

REEFS;

CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSAT; PIXEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SHALLOW WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; FLORIDA KEYS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 45549122272     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.015     Document Type: Article

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