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GIScience & Remote Sensing Volume 49, 2012 - Issue 2
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Creating Landscape-Scale Maps of Coral Reef Cover for Marine Reserve Management from High-Resolution Multispectral Remote Sensing

Noelle J. Relles College of William & Mary
,
Daniel O. B. Jones National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
&
Deepak R. Mishra Mississippi State University
Pages 251-274 | Published online: 15 May 2013
 
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Abstract

New methods are needed for the study of coral reefs, as they are changing rapidly. Satellite remote sensing has become a common method for benthic mapping with advances in satellites and sensors and as methods are devised to account for atmospheric and water-column effects. Images from the QuickBird satellite have proven useful in reef mapping. Sand was distinguished from coral with an overall accuracy of 75% on the shallow reef off of the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Coral and sand had user accuracies of 50% and 90%, respectively. Increased samples of field-collected data would further increase the accuracies of such classifications.

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