Application of Landsat images to seagrass areal cover change analysis for Lawas, Terengganu and Kelantan of Malaysia

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 110, Issue , 2015, Pages 124-148

  Hossain, M S ^a   Bujang, J S ^b   Zakaria, M H ^b   Hashim, M ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CROP SCIENCE   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Landsat; Malaysia; Region grow; Seagrass cover change; Seed pixel

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT LOSS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSAT; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAGRASS; SEED; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATER QUALITY;

EAST MALAYSIA; KELANTAN; LAWAS; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK; TERENGGANU; WEST MALAYSIA;

GUIBOURTIA DEMEUSEI;

EID: 84945289327     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: 18736955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2015.10.009     Document Type: Article

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