Habitat mapping and change assessment of coastal environments: An examination of worldview-2, quickbird, and ikonos satellite imagery and airborne lidar for mapping barrier island habitats

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 297-325

  McCarthy, Matthew J ^a   Halls, Joanne N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal change; Habitat classification; LiDAR; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927653866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi3010297     Document Type: Article

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