An integrated field and remote sensing method for mapping seagrass species, cover, and biomass in Southern Thailand

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Koedsin, Werapong ^a   Intararuang, Wissarut ^a   Ritchie, Raymond J ^a   Huete, Alfredo ^b  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Percentage cover; Remote sensing; Seagrass; Species diversity; Worldview 2

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INFRARED DEVICES; LINEAR REGRESSION; MAPPING; MARINE BIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION);

GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; HIGH-ACCURACY POSITIONING; MARINE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; PERCENTAGE COVER; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SEAGRASSES; WORLDVIEW-2;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84971657546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040292     Document Type: Article

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