Three-dimensional laser scanning as an efficient tool for coral surface area measurements

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 7, Issue SEPT, 2009, Pages 657-663

  Raz Bahat, Michal ^a,b   Faibish, Hanny ^c   Mass, Tali ^b,d   Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 77950242285     PISSN: 15415856     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2009.7.657     Document Type: Article

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