Accuracy and precision of habitat structural complexity metrics derived from underwater photogrammetry

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 16883-16900

  Figueira, Will ^a,b   Ferrari, Renata ^a,b   Weatherby, Elyse ^a,b   Porter, Augustine ^a,b   Hawes, Steven ^a,b   Byrne, Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Meshlab; Photo scan; Photogrammetry; Reef habitat structural complexity; Structure from motion; Surface area; Surface rugosity; Visual sfM

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REEFS; REMOTE SENSING;

CORAL REEF; MESHLAB; PHOTO SCAN; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; SURFACE AREA; VISUAL SFM;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84962568411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215859     Document Type: Article

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