An acoustic method for the remote measurement of seagrass metrics |
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Authors: | M. Paul A. Lefebvre E. MancaC.L. Amos |
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Affiliation: | National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Seagrass meadows are ecosystems of great ecological and economical value and their monitoring is an important task within coastal environmental management. In this paper, an acoustic mapping technique is presented using a profiling sonar. The method has been applied to three different sites with meadows of Zostera marina, Zostera noltii and Posidonia oceanica respectively, with the aim to test the method’s applicability. |
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Keywords: | seagrass mapping canopy height coverage eelgrass Posidonia oceanica |
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