Combining optical and acoustic data to enhance the detection of Caribbean forereef habitats

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2768-2778

  Bejarano, Sonia ^a   Mumby, Peter J ^a   Hedley, John D ^a   Sotheran, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Envision UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Acoustics; Coral reefs; Habitat mapping; IKONOS; RoxAnn

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CORAL REEFS; HABITAT MAPPING; IKONOS; ROXANN;

AVAILABILITY; REEFS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TOOLS;

ECOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACOUSTIC DATA; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; AIRBORNE SENSING; CORAL REEF; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; IKONOS; MAPPING METHOD; MARINE PARK; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEAFLOOR; STRATIFICATION;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; GLOVERS REEF MARINE RESERVE;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77956175621     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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