Drones that see through waves – preliminary results from airborne fluid lensing for centimetre-scale aquatic conservation

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 26, Issue , 2016, Pages 237-250

  Chirayath, Ved ^a   Earle, Sylvia A ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

airborne remote sensing; American Samoa; coastal bathymetry; coral reef; fluid lensing; Shark Bay; stromatolite

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BATHYMETRY; CALIBRATION; CORAL REEF; MODEL VALIDATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PIXEL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STROMATOLITE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WATER COLUMN; WAVELENGTH;

AMERICAN SAMOA; AUSTRALIA; MANUA ISLANDS; OFU; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA; CHONDRICHTHYES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84985911797     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2654     Document Type: Article

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