Habitat classification of temperate marine macroalgal communities using bathymetric LiDAR

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2154-2175

  Zavalas, Richard ^a   Ierodiaconou Daniel, D ^a   Ryan, David ^b   Rattray, Alex ^a   Monk, Jacquomo ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INTECSEA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Coastal; Exposed coast; Groundtruth video; Habitat mapping; LiDAR; reflectance; Subtidal macroalgae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BATHYMETRY; DECISION TREES; OPTICAL RADAR; REFLECTION;

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; COASTAL; DECISION TREE CLASSIFICATION; GROUNDTRUTH VIDEO; HABITAT CLASSIFICATION; HABITAT MAPPING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MACRO-ALGAE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84896971244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032154     Document Type: Article

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