Use of high-resolution optical satellite imagery to map eelgrass beds in shallow coastal waters in Atlantic Canada

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dc.contributor.advisorLeblon, Brigitte
dc.contributor.advisorSkinner, Marc
dc.contributor.authorForsey, David Jeffery
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:18:08Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:18:08Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2023-03-01T15:01:26Z
dc.description.abstractEelgrass (Zostera marina L.) is a marine angiosperm plant that grows throughout coastal areas in Atlantic Canada. Eelgrass meadows provide numerous ecosystem services and while they have been acknowledged as important habitats, their location, extent and health in Atlantic Canada are poorly understood. Our study examines the effectiveness of WorldView-2 and Pléiades optical satellite imagery to map eelgrass presence in Tabusintac, New Brunswick, an estuarine lagoon with extensive eelgrass coverage. The imagery was classified using two supervised classifiers: the parametric Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) and the non-parametric Random Forests (RF) classifier. While RF was expected to produce higher classification accuracies, it was shown not to be much better than MLC. The overall validation accuracy was 96.36% for both the RF and MLC classifiers when applied to the WorldView-2 8-band imagery. With MLC, WorldView-2 imagery outperformed Pléiades imagery. Limitations of the study are discussed, including the possible reasons for the low performance of the Pléiades classification.
dc.description.copyright© David Forsey, 2020
dc.formattext/xml
dc.format.extentviii, 64 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/13401
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineForestry and Environmental Management
dc.titleUse of high-resolution optical satellite imagery to map eelgrass beds in shallow coastal waters in Atlantic Canada
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineForestry and Environmental Management
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Science in Forestry
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.F.

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