Environmental and sensor limitations in optical remote sensing of coral reefs: Implications for monitoring and sensor design

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 271-302

  Hedley, John D ^a,b   Roelfsema, Chris M ^c   Phinn, Stuart R ^c   Mumby, Peter J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Le Grand Large Quai de la Douane   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Benthic; Bleaching; Coral reefs; Inherent optical properties; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AIR-BORNE SENSORS; AQUATIC; AQUATIC SYSTEM; BENTHIC; BENTHIC MAPPING; COMPONENT-BASED MODELS; CORAL REEF; CORAL REEFS; DATA SETS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; GENERIC METHOD; IMAGING SENSORS; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES; INSTRUMENT NOISE; LIMITING FACTORS; MACRO-ALGAE; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; PACIFIC OCEAN; SENSOR DESIGNS; SENSOR LIMITATIONS; SENSOR NOISE; SPECTRAL VARIATION; SUB PIXELS; WIND SPEED;

BLEACHING; CLEANING; REMOTE SENSING;

REEFS;

EID: 84857978140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4010271     Document Type: Article

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