Integrating field survey data with satellite image data to improve shallow water seagrass maps: The role of AUV and snorkeller surveys?

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 135-144

  Roelfsema, Chris ^a   Lyons, Mitchell ^b   Dunbabin, Matthew ^c   Kovacs, Eva M ^a   Phinn, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; CALIBRATION; DATA INTEGRATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SURVEYS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUVS); CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGE DATAS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIVING; ERROR CORRECTION; FIELD SURVEY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MODEL VALIDATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SAFETY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAGRASS; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AUSTRALIA; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84924351114     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2015.1013643     Document Type: Article

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