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

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...

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Main Authors: Hashim, Mazlan, Abd Rahman, Ridwan, Muhammad, Mazlani, Rasib, Abd. Wahid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian Association on Remote Sesning 2001
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2166/1/acr2001_1.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2166/
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Summary: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.