Novel Advances in Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring in Ocean, Lakes and Rivers

• Main Author: Casado, Monica Rivas (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Environmental economics; bottom reflectance; aquatic vegetation; normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Lake Ulansuhai; concave-convex decision function; radiative transfer; methodological comparison; remote sensing extraction; invasive plants; CAS S. alterniflora; spectroscopy; China; nuclear power station; floating algae index (FAI); Landsat OLI; Spartina alterniflora; substrate; unmanned aerial vehicle; Lake Baikal; reflectance; 1st derivative; seaweed; remote sensing; WorldView-2; species discrimination; WorldView-3; water-column correction; Selenga River Delta; macroalgae; object-based image analysis; seaweed enhancing index (SEI); freshwater wetland; GF-1 satellite; river
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In recent decades, there has been an increase in the development of strategies for water ecosystem mapping and monitoring. Overall, this is primarily due to legislative efforts to improve the quality of water bodies and oceans. Remote sensing has played a key role in the development of such approach...