Assessing the potential for satellite image monitoring of seagrass thermal dynamics:for inter-and shallow sub-tidal seagrasses in the inshore Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area,Australia  

作　　者：S.R.Phinn E.M.Kovacs C.M.Roelfsema R.F.Canto C.J.Collier L.J.McKenzie 

机构地区：[1]Remote Sensing Research Centre,School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,University of Queensland,St Lucia,Australia [2]Centre for Tropical Water and TERRAtic Ecosystem Research(TropWATER),James Cook University,Cairns,Australia

出　　处：《International Journal of Digital Earth》2018年第8期803-824,共22页国际数字地球学报（英文）

基　　金：the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s Resilient Coral Reefs successfully adapting to climate change research and development programme in collaboration with the Australian Government。

摘　　要：Seagrass meadows are at increasing risk of thermal stress and recent work has shown that water temperature around seagrass meadows could be used as an indicator for seagrass condition.Satellite thermal data have not been linked to the thermal properties of seagrass meadows.This work assessed the covariation between 20 in situ average daily temperature logger measurement sites in tropical seagrass meadows and satellite derived daytime SST(sea surface temperature)from the daytime MODIS and Landsat sensors along the Great Barrier Reef coast in Australia.Statistically significant(R2=0.787–0.939)positive covariations were found between in situ seagrass logger temperatures and MODIS SST temperature and Landsat sensor temperatures at all sites along the reef.The MODIS SST were consistently higher than in situ temperature at the majority of the sites,possibly due to the sensor’s larger pixel size and location offset from field sites.Landsat thermal data were lower than field-measured SST,due to differences in measurement scales and times.When refined significantly and tested over larger areas,this approach could be used to monitor seagrass health over large(106 km2)areas in a similar manner to using satellite SST for predicting thermal stress for corals.

关 键 词：SEAGRASS temperature thermal tolerance satellite sea surface temperature Landsat MODIS Great Barrier Reef 

分 类 号：Q94[生物学—植物学]