Spatial variation in carbon storage: A case study for currambene creek, NSW, Australia

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 1, Issue 75, 2016, Pages 1297-1301

  Owers, Christopher J ^a   Rogers, Kerrylee ^a   Mazumder, Debashish ^b   Woodroffe, Colin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal wetlands; Loss on ignition; Mangrove; Object based image analysis; Saltmarsh; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL WETLAND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; MANGROVE; SALTMARSH; SOIL CARBON; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84987711667     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/SI75-260.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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