Object-based image analysis for mapping geomorphic zones of coral reefs in the Xisha Islands, China

XU Jingping; ZHAO Jianhua; LI Fang; WANG Lin; SONG Derui; WEN Shiyong; WANG Fei; GAO Ning

doi:10.1007/s13131-016-0921-y

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XU Jingping, ZHAO Jianhua, LI Fang, WANG Lin, SONG Derui, WEN Shiyong, WANG Fei, GAO Ning. Object-based image analysis for mapping geomorphic zones of coral reefs in the Xisha Islands, China[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2016, 35(12): 19-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0921-y

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XU Jingping, ZHAO Jianhua, LI Fang, WANG Lin, SONG Derui, WEN Shiyong, WANG Fei, GAO Ning. Object-based image analysis for mapping geomorphic zones of coral reefs in the Xisha Islands, China[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2016, 35(12): 19-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0921-y

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XU Jingping, ZHAO Jianhua, LI Fang, WANG Lin, SONG Derui, WEN Shiyong, WANG Fei, GAO Ning. Object-based image analysis for mapping geomorphic zones of coral reefs in the Xisha Islands, China[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2016, 35(12): 19-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0921-y

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Object-based image analysis for mapping geomorphic zones of coral reefs in the Xisha Islands, China

doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0921-y

National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China

Received Date: 2015-08-02
Rev Recd Date: 2016-01-25

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Mapping regional spatial patterns of coral reef geomorphology provides the primary information to understand the constructive processes in the reef ecosystem. However, this work is challenged by the pixel-based image classification method for its comparatively low accuracy. In this paper, an object-based image analysis (OBIA) method was presented to map intra-reef geomorphology of coral reefs in the Xisha Islands, China using Landsat 8 satellite imagery. Following the work of the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project, a regional reef class hierarchy with ten geomorphic classes was first defined. Then, incorporating the hierarchical concept and integrating the spectral and additional spatial information such as context, shape and contextual relationships, a large-scale geomorphic map was produced by OBIA with accuracies generally more than 80%. Although the robustness of OBIA has been validated in the applications of coral reef mapping from individual reefs to reef system in this paper, further work is still required to improve its transferability.
- object-based,
- Landsat 8,
- geomorphic mapping,
- Xisha Islands

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