There has been a vast improvement in access to remotely sensed data in just a few recent
years. This revolution of information is the result of heavy investment in new technology by …

The current set of global conservation targets requires methods for monitoring the changing
status of ecosystems. Protocols for ecosystem risk assessment are uniquely suited to this …

Since the early 1980s, episodes of coral reef bleaching and mortality, due primarily to
climate-induced ocean warming, have occurred almost annually in one or more of the …

Historic baselines are important in developing our understanding of ecosystems in the face
of rapid global change. While a number of studies have sought to determine changes in …

Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem
services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures …

Ten IKONOS images of different coral reef sites distributed around the world were processed
to assess the potential of 4-m resolution multispectral data for coral reef habitat mapping …

A significant number of high spatial resolution (4 m) Ikonos images acquired over shallow
coastal environments present quasi-stochastic sea surface effects that seriously compromise …

Abstract In 2001, the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project initiated a global compilation of
30-meter spatial resolution Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite images that provides unprecedented …

Overview. Remote sensing stands as the defining technology in our ability to monitor coral
reefs, as well as their biophysical properties and associated processes, at regional to global …

Localized declines in coral condition are commonly linked to land-based sources of
stressors that influence gradients of water quality, and the distance to sources of stressors is …