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Spectral Characteristics of Seagrass with Landsat TM in Northern Sabah Coastline, Malaysia

Hashim, Mazlan and Abd Rahman, Ridwan and Muhammad, Mazlani and Rasib, Abd. Wahid (2001) Spectral Characteristics of Seagrass with Landsat TM in Northern Sabah Coastline, Malaysia. Proceedings of 12th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2001, Singapore .

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Abstract

The spectral characteristics of Landsat TM bands 1, 2 and 3 were examined over identified seagrass area in the South China Sea, off northern coastline of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Two seagrass types namely the low and high dense classes were used in this study. Two main extraction techniques employed ere the spectral transform based on band ratioing and radiative transfer model. Results of this study indicated that band ratio of band 2/band 1 gave a better spectral response to high dense and low dense seagrass distribution than band 3/band1, whereas band ratioing after applying radiative transfer model could not detect any seagrass in the study area.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:Landsat TM, Seagrass, radiative transfer model
Subjects:Q Science > Q Science (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GC Oceanography
Divisions:Geoinformation Science And Engineering
ID Code:2166
Deposited By: Wan Hazli Wan Kadir
Deposited On:31 Mar 2007 00:30
Last Modified:01 Jun 2010 03:01

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