Mapping bathymetric and hydrographic features of Glover's Reef, Belize, with a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 5 PART 2, 2008, Pages 2264-2272

  Shcherbina, Andrey Y ^a,b   Gawarkiewicz, Glen G ^a   Linder, Christopher A ^a   Thorrold, Simon R ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BATHYMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; HYDROGRAPHY; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MAPPING METHOD; MARINE PARK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SHELF BREAK; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CARIBBEAN SEA; CENTRAL AMERICA; GLOVERS REEF; MESOAMERICAN BARRIER REEF;

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS STRIATUS;

EID: 55949120208     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.5_part_2.2264     Document Type: Article

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