Seagrass mapping in Greek territorial waters using Landsat-8 satellite images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 67, Issue , 2018, Pages 98-113

  Topouzelis, Konstantinos ^a   Makri, Despina ^a   Stoupas, Nikolaos ^a   Papakonstantinou, Apostolos ^a   Katsanevakis, Stelios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Landsat 8; Marine habitat; Object based image analysis (OBIA); Posidonia oceanica

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CONSERVATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SEAGRASS;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CORFU; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; LEMNOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN; PELOPONNESE;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 85047382478     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.12.013     Document Type: Article

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