Integrating Quickbird multi-spectral satellite and field data: Mapping bathymetry, seagrass cover, seagrass species and change in Moreton Bay, Australia in 2004 and 2007

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-64

  Lyons, Mitchell ^a   Phinn, Stuart ^a   Roelfsema, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Change detection; High resolution; Quickbird; Remote sensing; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LEVEL; AUSTRALIA; BATHYMETRY MAPPING; BENTHIC HABITATS; CHANGE DETECTION; CHANGE DETECTION ANALYSIS; COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; COASTAL WATERS; DATA SETS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FIELD DATA; FIELD SURVEYS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LINEAR ALGORITHMS; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORETON BAY; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGE; QUICKBIRD; QUICKBIRD-2; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEAGRASSES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STUDY AREAS; WATER DEPTH;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ALGORITHMS; BATHYMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHOTOMAPPING; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURVEYS;

SEAWEED;

EID: 79959699321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3010042     Document Type: Article

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