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Remote Sensing of Seagrass Ecosystems: Use of Spaceborne and Airborne Sensors

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SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION

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The focus of this chapter lies in describing digital multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing developments and applications in the mapping and monitoring of seagrass ecosystems. Multispectral refers to a sensor that registers light in a limited number of relatively broad spectral bands (bandwidths of 20–60 nm); hyperspectral (also referred to as imaging spectrometry) is defined for sensors that measure the entire spectrum under consideration in contiguous narrow spectral bands (bandwidths between 2 and 20 nm).

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  1. CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, GPO Box 1666, ACT 2601, Australia

    Arnold Dekker, Vittorio Brando & Janet Anstee

  2. University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Suzanne Fyfe

  3. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Timothy Malthus & Evanthia Karpouzli

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Dekker, A., Brando, V., Anstee, J., Fyfe, S., Malthus, T., Karpouzli, E. (2007). Remote Sensing of Seagrass Ecosystems: Use of Spaceborne and Airborne Sensors. In: SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_15

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