ME53A:
Remote Sensing of Coral Reef Ecosystems II


Session ID#: 37347

Session Description:
Coral reefs provide key ecosystem goods and services, but are also sensitive ecosystems easily affected by both local and global perturbations. While many field studies provide crucial information and knowledge on coral reef structure and function at molecule to community scales, airborne and satellite remote sensing techniques are the only way to study reefs at the scale of the whole ecosystem. Until recently, most remote sensors were not very well suited to study coral reefs because of limitations associated with their broad bands and limited spatial resolution. A new generation of sensors are now available allowing remote sensing applications to go beyond the classic bathymetry estimates or habitat mapping. The aim of this session is to bring together scientists working on new remote sensing applications and methods for coral reef studies, such as NASA’s COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) mission and NASA’s HyspIRI Hawaii campaign. In particular, we welcome investigations that use recent instruments or have developed new approaches to study coral reefs at the ecosystem level.
Primary Chair:  Eric J Hochberg, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda
Co-Chair:  Eric J Hochberg, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda
Moderators:  Michelle M Gierach, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Steven G Ackleson, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Stacy Peltier, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George, Bermuda
Index Terms:

4220 Coral reef systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

NeMO-Net & Fluid Lensing – The Neural Multi-Modal Observation & Training Network for Global Coral Reef Assessment using Fluid Lensing Augmentation of NASA EOS Data (320585)
Ved Chirayath, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and NASA NeMO-Net Science Team
Range of Inherent Optical Properties of Pacific Coral Reef Waters (326128)
Brandon James Russell1, Heidi Dierssen2, Rodrigo Alejandro Garcia3 and Zhongping Lee3, (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
Validation of Shallow Water Retrievals from Extensive In-situ Measurements (320348)
Rodrigo Alejandro Garcia1, Zhongping Lee1, Brandon James Russell2 and Heidi M Dierssen2, (1)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
In-Water Photomosaic Validation of Remote Sensing Benthic Community Maps (321937)
Stacy Peltier, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George, Bermuda, Eric J Hochberg, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda and Steven Dollar, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Sensing Coral Reef Connectivity Pathways from Space (316760)
Dionysios E Raitsos, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, United Kingdom, Robert J W Brewin, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Peng Zhan, Earth Sciences and Engineering Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Denis Dreano, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Yaswant Pradhan, UK Met Office, Reading, United Kingdom, Gerrit B Nanninga, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Ibrahim Hoteit, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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