Monitoring water diversity and water quality with remote sensing and traits

A Lausch, L Bannehr, SA Berger, E Borg, J Bumberger… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Changes and disturbances to water diversity and quality are complex and multi-scale in
space and time. Although in situ methods provide detailed point information on the condition …

Increasing hypoxia on global coral reefs under ocean warming

AK Pezner, TA Courtney, HC Barkley, WC Chou… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Ocean deoxygenation is predicted to threaten marine ecosystems globally. However, current
and future oxygen concentrations and the occurrence of hypoxic events on coral reefs …

Assessment of the utility of underwater hyperspectral imaging for surveying and monitoring coral reef ecosystems

MS Mills, M Ungermann, G Rigot, J den Haan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Technological innovations that improve the speed, scale, reproducibility, and accuracy of
monitoring surveys will allow for a better understanding of the global decline in tropical reef …

[HTML][HTML] Defining multi-scale surface roughness of a coral reef using a high-resolution LiDAR digital elevation model

DL Harris, JM Webster, A Vila-Concejo, S Duce… - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
A decline in coral reef surface roughness may indicate that a coral reef ecosystem is
approaching functional collapse. This is because surface roughness underpins many critical …

Global coastal geomorphology–integrating earth observation and geospatial data

Y Mao, DL Harris, Z Xie, S Phinn - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Coastal geomorphic classification identifying the type of depositional environment, is an
important indicator for coastal state and vulnerability, eg, beach, bedrock and wetland (tidal …

[HTML][HTML] From Remote Sensing to Artificial Intelligence in Coral Reef Monitoring

VJ Piñeros, AM Reveles-Espinoza, JA Monroy - Machines, 2024 - mdpi.com
This review comprehensively covers the development of viable unmanned underwater
vehicles based on their technical capabilities, in particular those designed to conduct …

Earth observation for ecosystem accounting: spatially explicit national seagrass extent and carbon stock in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar

D Traganos, AP Pertiwi, CB Lee… - Remote Sensing in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrass ecosystems are globally significant hot spots of blue carbon storage, coastal
biodiversity and coastal protection, rendering them a so‐called natural climate solution …

[HTML][HTML] Bahamian seagrass extent and blue carbon accounting using Earth observation

A Blume, AP Pertiwi, CB Lee… - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Seagrasses are among the world's most productive ecosystems due to their vast
'blue'carbon sequestration rates and stocks, yet have a largely untapped potential for climate …

Regional high-resolution benthic habitat data from planet dove imagery for conservation decision-making and marine planning

SR Schill, VP McNulty, FJ Pollock, F Lüthje, J Li… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
High-resolution benthic habitat data fill an important knowledge gap for many areas of the
world and are essential for strategic marine conservation planning and implementing …

The global biogeography of reef morphology

LL Lutzenkirchen, SJ Duce… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Caribbean and Indo‐Pacific are separate biogeographical realms with
distinct biogeographical and evolutionary histories, a 10‐fold difference in biodiversity, and …