Seagrass habitat mapping: How do landsat 8 OLI, sentinel-2, ZY-3A, and worldview-3 perform?

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 686-695

  Kovacs, Eva ^a   Roelfsema, Christiaan ^a   Lyons, Mitchell ^b   Zhao, Shihu ^c   Phinn, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c National Administration of Surveying Mapping and Geo Information of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; PIXELS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FIELD DATA COLLECTION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MULTISPECTRAL SENSORS; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER; OVERALL ACCURACIES; SEAGRASS HABITATS; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; PIXEL; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SENSOR; WORLDVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 85056843707     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2018.1468101     Document Type: Article

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