Linking coral reef remote sensing and field ecology: It's a matter of scale

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lucas, Matthew Q ^a   Goodman, James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b Miami Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Coral reefs; Ecology; Field spectra; Remote sensing; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976213952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20771312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jmse3010001     Document Type: Article

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