Seagrass resource assessment using remote sensing methods in St. Joseph Sound and Clearwater Harbor, Florida, USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1131-1143

  Meyer, Cynthia A ^a   Pu, Ruiliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gulf of Mexico; Landsat TM; Mahalanobis Distance; Maximum Likelihood; Submerged aquatic vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CLEARWATER; ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; FLORIDA , USA; GULF OF MEXICO; LANDSAT TM; LANDSAT-5; LANDSAT-5 (L5) THEMATIC MAPPER; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE METHOD; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; RESOURCE MAP; SEAGRASSES; SPATIAL EXTENT; SUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATIONS; TEMPORAL AVAILABILITY;

DAMAGE DETECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

SEAWEED;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAGRASS; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SEAGRASS; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLORIDA; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPACECRAFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLEARWATER HARBOR; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; SAINT JOSEPH SOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857356557     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2028-4     Document Type: Article

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