Comparative evaluation of airborne LiDAR and ship-based multibeam SoNAR bathymetry and intensity for mapping coral reef ecosystems

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1082-1100

  Costa, B M ^a   Battista, T A ^a   Pittman, S J ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Bathymetry; Benthic habitat mapping; Coral reef ecosystems; Intensity; Laser altimetry; LiDAR; MBES; Morphometrics; Multibeam SoNAR

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING; CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS; INTENSITY; LASER ALTIMETRY; LIDAR; MBES; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIBEAM SONAR;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BACKSCATTERING; BATHYMETRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEAN HABITATS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SENSORS; RANGE FINDING; REEFS; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTS; SHIPS; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; BENTHOS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORAL REEF; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HYDROGRAPHY; LIDAR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOMETRY; MULTIBEAM SONAR; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 63949088163     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.01.015     Document Type: Article

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