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Coral Reef Remote Sensing: A Guide for Multi-level Sensing, Mapping and Assessment

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Remote sensing is a fundamental tool for mapping and monitoring coral reef ecosystems. Remote sensing offers the ability to provide repeatable, quantitative assessments of environmental characteristics over spatially extensive areas. As the multidisciplinary field of coral reef remote sensing continues to mature, results demonstrate that the techniques and capabilities have dramatically improved in recent years. These improvements are facilitating reef assessment and mapping to be performed with higher accuracy, and the increased level of information that is being made available is allowing more complex scientific questions to be addressed. Six different aspects of coral reef remote sensing are presented in this book: collection of field survey information for calibration and validation, multispectral and hyperspectral sensing, LiDAR mapping, ship-based acoustic analysis, the evaluation of sea surface temperature, and the use of these map products in reef science and management. These topics together provide a diverse foundation necessary for coral reef remote sensing across varying depth regimes. Audience. The broad scope of this volume includes a multi-level look at the varying tools needed for remote sensing of coral reefs, from satellite and airborne imagery of shallow environments to ship-based observations of deeper and/or turbid reef areas. The individual sections of the book include introductory overviews of five coral reef remote sensing disciplines, followed by specific examples demonstrating practical applications of the different technologies being discussed.