Mapping coral and sponge habitats on a shelf-depth environment using multibeam sonar and ROV video observations: Learmonth Bank, northern British Columbia, Canada

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 169-183

  Neves, Bárbara M ^a   Du Preez, Cherisse ^b   Edinger, Evan ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biotopes; Deep sea coral; Habitat mapping; Northeast Pacific; Remote sensing; Substrate; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

BIOTOPES; DEEP-SEA CORALS; HABITAT MAPPING; NORTHEAST PACIFIC; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; REEFS; REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SONAR;

SUBSTRATES;

BIOTOPE; CORAL; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; FJORD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MAPPING; SHELF SEA; SPONGE; SUBSTRATE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA; DIXON ENTRANCE; LEARMONTH BANK;

ANTHOZOA; GORGONIA; HEXACTINELLIDA; PRIMNOA PACIFICA; STYLASTER;

EID: 84893764012     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.026     Document Type: Article

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