Mapping seagrass and colonized hard bottom in Springs Coast, Florida using WorldView-2 satellite imagery

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 181, Issue , 2016, Pages 83-92

  Baumstark, René ^a,b   Duffey, Renee ^a   Pu, Ruiliang ^b  

^a FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonized hard bottom; Image classification; Object based image analysis (OBIA); Remote sensing; Seafloor mapping; Seagrass; Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV); WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; COAST; COLONIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAFLOOR; SEAGRASS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; SURVIVAL; WORLDVIEW;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84984633326     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.08.019     Document Type: Article

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