Between a reef and a hard place: capacity to map the next coral reef catastrophe
Hickey, Sharyn M., Radford, Ben, Roelfsema, Chris M., Joyce, Karen E., Wilson, Shaun K., Marrable, Daniel, Barker, Kathryn, Wyatt, Mathew, Davies, Harriet N., Leon, Javier X., Duncan, John, Holmes, Thomas H., Kendrick, Alan J., Callow, J. Nikolaus, and Murray, Kathy (2020) Between a reef and a hard place: capacity to map the next coral reef catastrophe. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. 544290.
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Abstract
Increasing sea surface temperature and extreme heat events pose the greatest threat to coral reefs globally, with trends exceeding previous norms. The resultant mass bleaching events, such as those evidenced on the Great Barrier Reef in 2016, 2017, and 2020 have substantial ecological costs in addition to economic and social costs. Advancing remote (nanosatellites, rapid revisit traditional satellites) and in-field (drones) technological capabilities, cloud data processing, and analysis, coupled with existing infrastructure and in-field monitoring programs, have the potential to provide cost-effective and timely information to managers allowing them to better understand changes on reefs and apply effective remediation. Within a risk management framework for monitoring coral bleaching, we present an overview of how remote sensing can be used throughout the whole risk management cycle and highlight the role technological advancement has in earth observations of coral reefs for bleaching events.
| Item ID: | 66705 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2296-7745 |
| Keywords: | climate change, coral reefs, disaster and risk management, drone, remote sensing, SST (sea surface temperature) |
| Copyright Information: | © 2020 Hickey, Radford, Roelfsema, Joyce, Wilson, Marrable, Barker, Wyatt, Davies, Leon, Duncan, Holmes, Kendrick, Callow and Murray. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Funders: | Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) |
| Projects and Grants: | AIMS Capacity Development Funding grant |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2021 23:10 |
| FoR Codes: | 40 ENGINEERING > 4013 Geomatic engineering > 401304 Photogrammetry and remote sensing @ 30% 40 ENGINEERING > 4013 Geomatic engineering > 401302 Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling @ 40% 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation > 410102 Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation @ 30% |
| SEO Codes: | 18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1805 Marine systems and management > 180501 Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems @ 100% |
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