Automated satellite remote sensing of giant kelp at the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas).

ABSTRACT: Giant kelp populations that support productive and diverse coastal ecosystems at temperate and subpolar latitudes of both hemispheres are vulnerable to changing climate conditions as well as direct human impacts. Observations of giant kelp forests are spatially and temporally uneven, with disproportionate coverage in the northern hemisphere, despite the size and comparable density of southern hemisphere kelp forests. Satellite imagery enables the mapping of existing and historical giant kelp populations in understudied regions, but automating the detection of giant kelp using satellite imagery requires approaches that are robust to the optical complexity of the shallow, nearshore environment. We present and compare two approaches for automating the detection of giant kelp in satellite data

SUBMITTER: Houskeeper HF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8735600 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature