Validation of reef-scale thermal stress satellite products for coral bleaching monitoring

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Heron, Scott F ^a,b,c   Johnston, Lyza ^d   Liu, Gang ^a,b   Geiger, Erick F ^a,b   Maynard, Jeffrey A ^e,f   De La Cour, Jacqueline L ^a,b   Johnson, Steven ^d   Okano, Ryan ^d   Benavente, David ^d   Burgess, Timothy F R ^g   Iguel, John ^d   Perez, Denise I ^d,g   Skirving, William J ^a,b   Strong, Alan E ^a,b   Tirak, Kyle ^a,b   Mark Eakin, C ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Global Science and Technology Inc   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Division of Coastal Resources Management   (United States)

^e SymbioSeas and Marine Applied Research Center   (United States)

^f Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne   (French Polynesia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

CNMI; Coastal and marine management; Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Coral bleaching; Coral diversity; Coral reef; NOAA coral reef watch; Satellite; Sea surface temperature; SST; Thermal stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957879304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010059     Document Type: Article

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