Coral reef applications of Sentinel-2: Coverage, characteristics, bathymetry and benthic mapping with comparison to Landsat 8

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 216, Issue , 2018, Pages 598-614

  Hedley, John D ^a   Roelfsema, Chris ^b   Brando, Vittorio ^c   Giardino, Claudia ^c   Kutser, Tiit ^d   Phinn, Stuart ^b   Mumby, Peter J ^b   Barrilero, Omar ^e   Laporte, Jean ^f   Koetz, Benjamin ^g  

^a Numerical Optics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e CS Systèmes D'Information   (France)

^f Le Grand Large Quai de la Douane   (United Kingdom)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Coral reefs; Habitat mapping; Landsat; Sentinel 2; Sun glint

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHOTOMAPPING; REEFS; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ACQUISITION RATES; BENTHIC MAPPING; CORAL REEF; HABITAT MAPPING; LANDSAT; LARGE-SCALES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; REMOTE-SENSING; SENTINEL-2; SUN GLINT;

LANDSAT;

BATHYMETRY; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT; INSTRUMENTATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SENTINEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WORLDVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 85051278681     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.07.014     Document Type: Article

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