The application of remote sensing for marine protected area management

D Kachelriess, M Wegmann, M Gollock, N Pettorelli - Ecological Indicators, 2014 - Elsevier
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are important tools for the conservation of marine
biodiversity but their designation and effective monitoring require frequent, comprehensive …

Machine-learning for mapping and monitoring shallow coral reef habitats

C Burns, B Bollard, A Narayanan - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mapping and monitoring coral reef benthic composition using remotely sensed imagery
provides a large-scale inference of spatial and temporal dynamics. These maps have …

Detection of coral reefs degradation using geospatial techniques around Saint Martin's Island, Bay of Bengal

MY Gazi, TJ Mowsumi, MK Ahmed - Ocean Science Journal, 2020 - Springer
Saint Martin's is a unique island located in the Bay of Bengal where coral species are
abundant due to its favorable and unique environmental conditions. Coral communities are …

Satellite imaging coral reef resilience at regional scale. A case-study from Saudi Arabia

G Rowlands, S Purkis, B Riegl, L Metsamaa… - Marine Pollution …, 2012 - Elsevier
We propose a framework for spatially estimating a proxy for coral reef resilience using
remote sensing. Data spanning large areas of coral reef habitat were obtained using the …

Combining drones and deep learning to automate coral reef assessment with RGB imagery

AB Giles, K Ren, JE Davies, D Abrego, B Kelaher - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coral reefs and their associated marine communities are increasingly threatened by
anthropogenic climate change. A key step in the management of climate threats is an …

Fifty years of changes in reef flat habitats of the Grand Récif of Toliara (SW Madagascar) and the impact of gleaning

S Andréfouët, MMM Guillaume, A Delval… - Coral Reefs, 2013 - Springer
The Grand Récif of Toliara (GRT) in Madagascar is a large (33 km 2) barrier reef system of
the SW Indian Ocean that had been well investigated in the 1960s and early 1970s. A …

Atolls of the world: a reappraisal from an optical remote sensing and global mapping perspective

S Andréfouët, M Paul - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project (MCRMP) aimed to map coral reefs
worldwide at geomorphological thematic scales using Landsat satellite images at 30 m …

Change detection of Bunaken Island coral reefs using 15 years of very high resolution satellite images: A kaleidoscope of habitat trajectories

EE Ampou, S Ouillon, C Iovan, S Andréfouët - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In Bunaken Island (Indonesia), a time-series of very high resolution (2–4 m) satellite
imagery was used to draw the long-term dynamics of shallow reef flat habitats from 2001 to …

Climate Change Impact on Land Use and Land Cover Change on Saint Martin's Island, Bangladesh

R Ahmed, KH Mahmud, B Hafsa, JH Tuya… - Journal of Coastal …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Coral islands like Saint Martin's have long been recognized as being particularly
vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. Based on this hypothesis, the broad aim …

Review of coral reef ecosystem remote sensing

J Xu, D Zhao - Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2014 - Elsevier
Coral reef communities face unprecedented pressures at local, regional and global scales
as a consequence of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance. Remote sensing, from …