Remote Sensing of Marine Environment
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 April 2024) | Viewed by 4818
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical methods of seafloor mapping; blending techniques for construction of photomosaics from imagery acquired underwater; seafloor structure reconstruction from multiple views; probabilistic reconstruction of color in underwater imagery
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Interests: marine remote sensing; habitat mapping; target detection; seabed classification; swath sonar; marine geology; multibeam echosounder; sidescan sonar; geophysics; GIS; geostatistics
Interests: hydro-acoutics (parametric echosounder, MBES, SideScan, water column imaging); habitat detection; surface waves and internal gravity waves; scientific computing; LiDAR
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Most of the world’s coastlines are dominated by ecologically and economically important species that provide numerous ecosystem services. The additional structure provided by temperate and tropical reefs sustains food webs by providing food and shelter for a wide variety of species including herbivores, detrivores, predators, and other filter feeders.
The main source of information regarding habitats is imagery as acoustic techniques have too low resolution and may provide indirect data only about substrate and facies. Due to strong wavelength-dependent absorption of light by water, conventional RGB imagery often yields deceiving color measurements, with the only useful data being sizes and shapes. Multispectral imagery supplies researchers with the most reliable information but requires accurate knowledge of many parameters, including water properties, illuminant spectrum, etc. Some useful information may be obtained from optical sensors that are far away from habitats, such as airborne lidar and satellites. These data have even lower resolution than that of acoustic sensors but come with no cost, as a byproduct of the data collected for other purposes.
High-resolution imagery allows recognition of individual species and substrates by means of supervised and semi-supervised machine learning.
Prof. Dr. Yuri Rzhanov
Dr. Elias Fakiris
Dr. Philipp Held
Dr. Lorenzo Fiori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical imagery
- invasive species
- habitat health
- machine learning