Earth observation based assessment of anthropogenic stress to coral reefs - A global analysis

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Aubrecht, C ^a   Elvidge, C D ^b   Eakin, C M ^c  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic stress; Artificial night; Coral reefs; DMSP; Lighting; Lights proximity index

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC STRESS; ARTIFICIAL NIGHT; CONSERVATION PROJECTS; CORAL REEF; CORAL REEFS; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; DMSP; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PROXY MEASURE; RASTER MAP; REGIONAL SCALE;

CONSERVATION; LIGHTING; REMOTE SENSING;

REEFS;

EID: 67649732429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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