Measuring coral reef terrain roughness using 'Structure-from-Motion' close-range photogrammetry

Geomorphology

Volumn 242, Issue , 2015, Pages 21-28

  Leon, J X ^a   Roelfsema, Chris M ^a   Saunders, Megan I ^a   Phinn, Stuart R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agisoft photoscan; Coral reef; Fractal dimension; Heron Reef; Rugosity; Structure from motion (SfM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CORAL REEF; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ORTHOPHOTO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TERRAIN;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HERON ISLAND; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 84930271409     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.01.030     Document Type: Article

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