Quantification of floating macroalgae blooms using the scaled algae index

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-42

  Garcia, Rodrigo A ^a   Fearns, Peter ^a   Keesing, John K ^b,c   Liu, Dongyan ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FIELD OF VIEWS; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SAI ALGORITHMS; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SPATIAL COVERAGE; THRESHOLD DETERMINATION;

PIXELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGAL BLOOM; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROALGA; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

ALGAE;

EID: 84878952565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008292     Document Type: Article

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