Improved seagrass mapping using linear spectral unmixing of aerial photographs

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 171, Issue , 2016, Pages 11-22

  Uhrin, Amy V ^a,b   Townsend, Philip A ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital aerial photography; Linear spectral unmixing; North Carolina; Remote sensing; Seagrass classification; Seagrass spatial configuration; Visual photointerpretation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; POLYGON; REMOTE SENSING; SEAGRASS; SPATIAL DATA; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955273418     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.01.021     Document Type: Article

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