Hyperspectral discrimination of floating mats of seagrass wrack and the macroalgae Sargassum in coastal waters of Greater Florida Bay using airborne remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 167, Issue , 2015, Pages 247-258

  Dierssen, H M ^a   Chlus, A ^a   Russell, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne imaging spectroscopy; Beach wrack; Floating algae; Hyperspectral; Langmuir; Ocean color; PRISM; Remote sensing; Sargassum; Seagrass; Syringodium filiforme; Wrack

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); PRISMS; REFLECTION; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE WATERS; VEGETATION; WATER ABSORPTION;

AIRBORNE IMAGING; HYPERSPECTRAL; LANGMUIRS; OCEAN COLOR; SARGASSUM; SEAGRASSES; SYRINGODIUM FILIFORME; WRACK;

REMOTE SENSING;

ABSORPTION; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COASTAL WATER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; MACROALGA; NDVI; OCEAN COLOR; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAGRASS; SEAWEED; SPECTROSCOPY;

FLORIDA BAY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; SARGASSUM; SYRINGODIUM; SYRINGODIUM FILIFORME;

EID: 84938981279     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.027     Document Type: Article

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