Damage to seagrass and seaweed beds in Matsushima Bay, Japan, caused by the huge tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 5843-5863

  Tsujimoto, Ryo ^a,e   Terauchi, Genki ^a   Sasaki, Hisao ^b   Sakamoto, Shingo X ^c   Sawayama, Shuhei ^c   Sasa, Shuji ^c   Yagi, Hiroshi ^d   Komatsu, Teruhisa ^c  

^a Tower 111   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d VisionTech Inc   (Japan)

^e Fisheries and Fishing Port Division of Agriculture   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEAWEED; SUBSTRATES;

BROWN SEAWEED; COASTAL FISHERIES; GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; MUDDY BOTTOMS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEAGRASSES; SEAWEED BEDS; ZOSTERA MARINA;

TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAFLOOR; SEAGRASS; SEAWEED; TSUNAMI;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; TOHOKU;

SARGASSUM HORNERI; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84997208397     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1249300     Document Type: Article

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