FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Seaweed Habitats on the Shore: Characterization through Hyperspectral UAV Imagery and Field Sampling BT AF Diruit, Wendy Le Bris, Anthony Bajjouk, Touria Richier, Sophie Helias, Mathieu Burel, Thomas Lennon, Marc Guyot, Alexandre Ar Gall, Erwan AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:2;5:1;6:1;7:4;8:4;9:1; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, 29280 Plouzané, France Centre d’Etude et de Valorisation des Algues (CEVA), 22195 Pleubian, France Ifremer, Dynamiques des Ecosystèmes Côtiers (DYNECO)/Laboratoire d’Ecologie Benthique Côtière (LEBCO), 29280 Plouzané, France Hytech-Imaging, 115 Rue Claude Chappe, 29280 Plouzané, France C2 UBO, FRANCE CEVA, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE HYTECH-IMAGING, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO UM LEMAR IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 5 TC 15 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00780/89149/94719.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;seaweeds;hyperspectral;UAVs;intertidal ecology;rocky shores;supervised classification;vegetation cover AB Intertidal macroalgal habitats are major components of temperate coastal ecosystems. Their distribution was studied using field sampling and hyperspectral remote mapping on a rocky shore of Porspoder (western Brittany, France). Covers of both dominating macroalgae and the sessile fauna were characterized in situ at low tide in 24 sampling spots, according to four bathymetric levels. A zone of ca. 17,000 m2 was characterized using a drone equipped with a hyperspectral camera. Macroalgae were identified by image processing using two classification methods to assess the representativeness of spectral classes. Finally, a comparison of the remote imaging data to the field sampling data was conducted. Seven seaweed classes were distinguished by hyperspectral pictures, including five different species of Fucales. The maximum likelihood (MLC) and spectral angle mapper (SAM) were both trained using image-derived spectra. MLC was more accurate to classify the main dominating species (Overall Accuracy (OA) 95.1%) than SAM (OA 87.9%) at a site scale. However, at sampling points scale, the results depend on the bathymetric level. This study evidenced the efficiency and accuracy of hyperspectral remote sensing to evaluate the distribution of dominating intertidal seaweed species and the potential for a combined field/remote approach to assess the ecological state of macroalgal communities. PY 2022 PD JUN SO Remote Sensing SN 2072-4292 PU MDPI AG VL 14 IS 13 UT 000823917700001 DI 10.3390/rs14133124 ID 89149 ER EF