Establishing a baseline for regional scale monitoring of eelgrass (Zostera marina) habitat on the lower Alaska Peninsula

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12447-12477

  Hogrefe, Kyle R ^a   Ward, David H ^a   Donnelly, Tyrone F ^a   Dau, Niels ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Eelgrass; Habitat mapping; Isodata; Landsat; Maximum likelihood; Monitoring program; Remote sensing; Satellite imagery; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920071553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212447     Document Type: Article

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