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Hyperspectral remote sensing of coral reefs: Assessing the potential for spectral discrimination of coral symbiont diversity

Dierssen, Heidi: University of Connecticut (Project Lead)

NRA: 2014 NASA: HyspIRI Preparatory Airborne Activities and Associated Science: Coral Reef and Volcano Research   

Funded by Other US Funding: , NASA

Publications:

Allen, J. G., Nelson, N. B., Siegel, D. A. 2017. Seasonal to multi-decadal trends in apparent optical properties in the Sargasso Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 119, 58-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2016.11.004

Castagna, A., Amadei Martinez, L., Bogorad, M., Daveloose, I., Dassevile, R., Dierssen, H. M., Beck, M., Mortelmans, J., Lavigne, H., Dogliotti, A., Doxaran, D., Ruddick, K., Vyverman, W., Sabbe, K. Optical and biogeochemical properties of Belgian inland and coastal waters DOI: 10.5194/essd-2021-466

Castagna, A., Amadei Martinez, L., Bogorad, M., Daveloose, I., Dasseville, R., Dierssen, H. M., Beck, M., Mortelmans, J., Lavigne, H., Dogliotti, A., Doxaran, D., Ruddick, K., Vyverman, W., Sabbe, K. 2022. Optical and biogeochemical properties of diverse Belgian inland and coastal waters. Earth System Science Data. 14(6), 2697-2719. DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-2697-2022

Castagna, A., Carol Johnson, B., Voss, K., Dierssen, H. M., Patrick, H., Germer, T. A., Sabbe, K., Vyverman, W. 2019. Uncertainty in global downwelling plane irradiance estimates from sintered polytetrafluoroethylene plaque radiance measurements. Applied Optics. 58(16), 4497. DOI: 10.1364/AO.58.004497

Dierssen, H., McManus, G. B., Chlus, A., Qiu, D., Gao, B., Lin, S. 2015. Space station image captures a red tide ciliate bloom at high spectral and spatial resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(48), 14783-14787. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512538112

Garaba, S. P., Aitken, J., Slat, B., Dierssen, H. M., Lebreton, L., Zielinski, O., Reisser, J. 2018. Sensing Ocean Plastics with an Airborne Hyperspectral Shortwave Infrared Imager. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02855

Garaba, S. P., Dierssen, H. M. 2020. Hyperspectral ultraviolet to shortwave infrared characteristics of marine-harvested, washed-ashore and virgin plastics. Earth System Science Data. 12(1), 77-86. DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-77-2020

Greaves, H. E., Vierling, L. A., Eitel, J. U. H., Boelman, N. T., Magney, T. S., Prager, C. M., Griffin, K. L. 2016. Applying terrestrial lidar for evaluation and calibration of airborne lidar-derived shrub biomass estimates in Arctic tundra. Remote Sensing Letters. 8(2), 175-184. DOI: 10.1080/2150704x.2016.1246770

Greaves, H. E., Vierling, L. A., Eitel, J. U., Boelman, N. T., Magney, T. S., Prager, C. M., Griffin, K. L. 2016. High-resolution mapping of aboveground shrub biomass in Arctic tundra using airborne lidar and imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 184, 361-373. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.026

Khan, A. L., Dierssen, H., Schwarz, J. P., Schmitt, C., Chlus, A., Hermanson, M., Painter, T. H., McKnight, D. M. 2017. Impacts of coal dust from an active mine on the spectral reflectance of Arctic surface snow in Svalbard, Norway. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 122(3), 1767-1778. DOI: 10.1002/2016jd025757

Laureano-Rosario, A. E., Garcia-Rejon, J. E., Gomez-Carro, S., Farfan-Ale, J. A., Muller-Karger, F. E. 2017. Modelling dengue fever risk in the State of Yucatan, Mexico using regional-scale satellite-derived sea surface temperature. Acta Tropica. 172, 50-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2017.04.017

McCarthy, M. J., Colna, K. E., El-Mezayen, M. M., Laureano-Rosario, A. E., Mendez-Lazaro, P., Otis, D. B., Toro-Farmer, G., Vega-Rodriguez, M., Muller-Karger, F. E. 2017. Satellite Remote Sensing for Coastal Management: A Review of Successful Applications. Environmental Management. 60(2), 323-339. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-017-0880-x

Russell, B., Dierssen, H., LaJeunesse, T., Hoadley, K., Warner, M., Kemp, D., Bateman, T. 2016. Spectral Reflectance of Palauan Reef-Building Coral with Different Symbionts in Response to Elevated Temperature. Remote Sensing. 8(3), 164. DOI: 10.3390/rs8030164


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