Mapping salt marsh along coastal South Carolina using U-Net

H Li, C Wang, Y Cui, M Hodgson - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coastal wetland mapping is often difficult because of the heterogeneous vegetation
compositions and associated tidal effects. In this study, we employed the U-Net and …

Machine learning for understanding inland water quantity, quality, and ecology

AP Appling, SK Oliver, JS Read, JM Sadler, J Zwart - 2022 - eartharxiv.org
This chapter provides an overview of machine learning models and their applications to the
science of inland waters. Such models serve a wide range of purposes for science and …

Quantifying the Long-Term Expansion and Dieback of Spartina Alterniflora Using Google Earth Engine and Object-Based Hierarchical Random Forest Classification

D Yan, J Li, X Yao, Z Luan - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The overwhelming spread of Spartina alterniflora (S. alterniflora)(smooth cordgrass) over
recent decades has put many native plant communities and coastal environments at risk …

Quantifying Dieback in a Vulnerable Population of Eucalyptus macrorhyncha Using Remote Sensing

DL Fitzgerald, S Peters, GR Guerin, A McGrath… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
A disjunct population of red stringybark (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha) trees in South Australia
is experiencing increasing amounts of dieback. Because the population is considered …

Burrowing crabs and physical factors hasten marsh recovery at panne edges

K Beheshti, C Endris, P Goodwin, A Pavlak, K Wasson - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Salt marsh loss is projected to increase as sea-level rise accelerates with global climate
change. Salt marsh loss occurs along both lateral creek and channel edges and in the …

Spatiotemporal assessment of potential drivers of salt marsh dieback in the North Inlet-Winyah Bay estuary, South Carolina (1990–2019)

H Li, C Wang, Q Yu, E Smith - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous studies in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic states have suggested that a suite of
possibly abiotic and biotic attributes is responsible for salt marsh dieback, eg, drought, soil …

An algorithm for detecting and quantifying disturbance and recovery in high‐frequency time series

JA Walter, CD Buelo, AF Besterman… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Determining when a disturbance has occurred, its severity, and when the system recovered,
is important to numerous questions in the aquatic sciences. This problem can be …

Benthic Microalgal Community Structure, Primary Productivity, and Fiddler Crab (Leptuca pugilator) Grazing in an Estuarine Salt Panne

JL Pinckney - Estuaries and Coasts, 2023 - Springer
Salt pannes are marsh features in the supratidal zone that are devoid of macrophytic
vegetation. Although these habitats appear barren, benthic microalgae (BMA) inhabit the …

Digital Earth: From Earth Observations to Analytical Solutions

C Wang - New Thinking in GIScience, 2022 - Springer
Remote sensing collects the primary data for Earth observations. Social sensing especially
citizen science offers crowdsourced volunteered geographic information (VGI) as …

Studies of Roseau Cane Dieback in the Lower Mississippi River Delta Based on Remote Sensing Data Including Landsat Worldview and Drone

N Shang - 2022 - search.proquest.com
This research focused on the Roseau cane (Phragmites australis) dieback assessment in
the lower MRD of Louisiana and introduced a comprehensive and systematic multi-source …