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- Title
Bathymetry of the Coral Reefs of Weizhou Island Based on Multispectral Satellite Images.
- Authors
Rongyong Huang; Kefu Yu; Yinghui Wang; Jikun Wang; Lin Mu; Wenhuan Wang
- Abstract
Shallow water depth measurements using multispectral images are crucial for marine surveying and mapping. At present, relevant studies either depend on the use of other auxiliary data (such as field water depths or water column data) or contain too many unknown variables, thus making these studies suitable only for images that contain enough visible wavebands. To solve this problem, a Quasi-Analytical Algorithm (QAA) approach is proposed in this paper for estimating the water depths aroundWeizhou Island by developing a QAA to estimate the diffuse attenuation coefficients and simplifying the parameterization of the bathymetric model. The approach contains an initialization sub-approach and a novel global adjustment sub-approach. It is not only independent of other auxiliary data but also greatly reduces the number of unknowns. Experimental results finally demonstrated that the Root Mean Square Errors (RMSEs) were 1.01 m and 0.77 m for the ZY-3 image and the WorldView-3 (WV-3) image, respectively, so the approach is competitive to other QAA bathymetric methods. Besides, the global adjustment sub-approach was also seen to be superior to common smoothing filters: if the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is as low as 42, i.e., ZY-3, it can smooth the water depths and improve the accuracies, otherwise can avoid the over-smoothing of water depths.
- Subjects
WEIZHOU Dao (China); BATHYMETRY; MARINE geophysics; ARTIFICIAL satellites; REMOTE sensing; CORAL reef environmental conditions
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 7, p750
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs9070750