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Developing a Semi-Automated Near-Coastal, Water Quality-Retrieval Process from Global Multi-Spectral Data: South-Eastern Australia
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A scalable big data approach for remotely tracking rangeland conditions - Communications Earth & Environment
Abstract Rangelands, covering half of the global land area, are critically degraded by unsustainable use and climate change. Despite their extensive presence, global assessments of rangeland condition and sustainability are limited. Here we introduce a novel analytical approach that combines satellite big data and statistical modeling to quantify the likelihood of changes in rangeland conditions.
Earth's Coral Reefs Are Far Bigger Than We Thought, Satellite Imagery Reveals Original
The world's coral reefs are close to 25 percent larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra 64,000 square kilometers (24,700 square miles) of coral reefs – an area the size of Ireland. That brings the total size of the planet's shallow reefs (meaning 0-20 meters deep) to 348,000 square kilometers – the size of Germany.
Africa: The World's Coral Reefs Are Bigger Than We Thought - but It Took Satellites, Snorkels and Machine Learning to See Them
analysis The world's coral reefs are close to 25% larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra 64,000 square kilometres of coral reefs - an area the size of Ireland. That brings the total size of the planet's shallow reefs (meaning 0-20 metres deep) to 348,000 square kilometres - the size of Germany.
The world’s coral reefs are bigger than we thought - but it took satellites, snorkels and machine learning to see them
The world’s coral reefs are close to 25% larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra 64,000 square kilometres of coral reefs – an area the size of Ireland. That brings the total size of the planet’s shallow reefs (meaning 0-20 metres deep) to 348,000 square kilometres – the size of Germany.
Pre-Processing Training Data Improves Accuracy and Generalisability of Convolutional Neural Network Based Landscape Semantic Segmentation
2. Methodology 2.1. Project Area The project area, located in North Queensland, Australia, encompasses the towns of Mareeba in the north, Atherton in the south and Dimbulah in the west (Figure 1).
Two Decades of Land-Use Dynamics in an Urbanizing Tropical Watershed: Understanding the Patterns and Drivers
1. Introduction Land-use is widely considered as a primary parameter of environmental change from local to global scales and is increasingly included in environmental change assessments [1,2]. Changes in land-uses may impact upon hydrology [3], biodiversity, water saving measures [4], and disaster risk [5]. Rapid land-use changes have often been associated with uncontrollable urban growth [6], farm loss [7], and deforestation [8].
Characterisation of Banana Plant Growth Using High-Spatiotemporal-Resolution Multispectral UAV Imagery
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Aaron Aeberli 1,2,*, Stuart Phinn 2, Kasper Johansen 3, Andrew Robson 1 and David W.
Predicting the current and future suitable-habitat distribution of tropical adult and juvenile targeted fishes in multi-sector fisheries of central Queensland, Australia
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND) References Arthington, AH, Dulvy, NK, Gladstone, W, and Winfield, IJ (2016 ). Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26 , 838–857.
Mangrove Forest Cover and Phenology with Landsat Dense Time Series in Central Queensland, Australia
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Global protected‐area coverage and human pressure on tidal flats
Contributed Paper Narelle K. Hill Corresponding Author E-mail address: narelle.kay.hill@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0392-3981 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Address correspondence to Narelle K. Hill, email narelle.kay.hill@gmail.com Search for more papers by this author Nicholas J.
Opportunities for big data in conservation and sustainability
Big data reveals new, stark pictures of the state of our environments. It also reveals ‘bright spots’ amongst the broad pattern of decline and—crucially—the key conditions for these cases. Big data analyses could benefit the planet if tightly coupled with ongoing sustainability efforts. This big data revolution, which encompasses techniques to capture, process, analyse and visualize large datasets in a rapid timeframe, has led to an explosion in data variety over the last five decades (Fig. 1a).
3D Imaging Insights into Forests and Coral Reefs
Kim Calders @ Author Footnotes @ Twitter: @kimcalders (K. Calders), @stuartphinn (S. Phinn), @DrFerrariR (R. Ferrari), @JXavierLeon (J. Leon), @ArmstonJohn (J. Armston), @greg_asner (G.P. Asner), and @mathiasdisney (M. Disney). Kim Calders Correspondence Corresponding author Footnotes @ Twitter: @kimcalders (K. Calders), @stuartphinn (S. Phinn), @DrFerrariR (R. Ferrari), @JXavierLeon (J. Leon), @ArmstonJohn (J. Armston), @greg_asner (G.P. Asner), and @mathiasdisney (M. Disney).
The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats
Abstract Increasing human populations around the global coastline have caused extensive loss, degradation and fragmentation of coastal ecosystems, threatening the delivery of important ecosystem services1. As a result, alarming losses of mangrove, coral reef, seagrass, kelp forest and coastal marsh ecosystems have occurred1,2,3,4,5,6.
Intercomparison of shallow water bathymetry, hydro‐optics, and benthos mapping techniques in Australian and Caribbean coastal environments
Estimation of the likelihood function for non-linear optimization problems: Applications to the radiative transfer model in shallow water High resolution remote sensing classification of coral reef substrate, base on SVM—Taken XiSha Zhaoshu island as an example Fusion of bathymetric LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery for shallow water bathymetry Measurement of a coastal area by a hyperspectral imager using an optical fiber bundle, a swing mirror and compact spectrometers Estimation of the sea...
Australia relies on data from Earth observation satellites, but our access is high risk
This article is part of a series Australia’s place in space, where we’ll explore the strengths and weaknesses, along with the past, present and the future of Australia’s space presence and activities. Rockets, astronomy and humans on Mars: there’s a lot of excited talk about space and what new discoveries might come if Australia’s federal government commits to expanding Australia’s space industry. But one space industry is often left out of the conversation: Earth observation (EO).
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