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**4** 

*China* 

**Seagrass Distribution in China** 

**with Satellite Remote Sensing** 

In nowadays, seagrass has been regarded as one of the healthy indexes for costal ecosystem, for it can provide shelter for fish living and laying egg, and also provide food for fish, tortoise, Dugong and seabirds. Management and preservation of coastal marine resources is a formidable challenge given the rapid pace of change affecting coastal environments. Fast, accurate, and quantitative tools are needed for detecting change in coastal ecosystems. Traditional in-situ surveys are time and labor intensive, generally lack the spatial resolution and precision required to detect subtle changes before they become catastrophic, and can be difficult to maintain from year to year (Orth & Moore, 1983, Peterson & Fourqurean 2001). In recent times satellite technology has played a vital role in seagrass monitoring. Remote sensing was a useful method for detection of land use change and seagrass. Satellite remote detecting of seagrass was different from that of terrestrial vegetation for water absorbing greatly at red and infer-red spectrum. When seagrass distributed underwater, visible spectrum was often used to detect the density and living state of seagrass. Lennon introduced the advantage of satellite remote sensing on detection of seagrass in 1989 and regarded red, blue and green as the most useful channel for detecting seagrass distribution (Lennon, 1989). Dahdouh-Guebas (1999) also used channel of blue, red and green to map the distribution of seagrass in Kenyan coast. Understanding of light scattering by plant canopies is crucial for remote sensing quantification of vegetation abundance and distribution (Jacquemoud et al. 1996). Hyperspectral data is very useful for assessing seagrass resources as it contains plentiful information. High turbidity is one of the important reasons for seagrass decline and usually was a problem for detection of seagrass with remote sensing. Phinn (2005) retrieved the seagrass along the coast of Moreton Bay, Australia and found that seagrass in turbid water was relatively difficult to detect. After studied variation of seagrass distribution and species affected by land use change, Batish (2002) concluded that hurricane and strong rainfall was the main factors for mud losing and sediment resuspension, which increased the water turbidity. The need for precise detection of living status and distribution of seagrass led some researchers to use high resolution remote sensing data. Among them SPOT data was very useful, for it had spatial resolution of 2.5m, 5m, 10m and four bands (visible and inferred, Bands B1: 0.50–0.59μm; B2: 0.61–0.68μm; B3: 0.78–0.89μm; B4 : 1.58– 1.75 μm with a resolution of 20 m ). Pasqualini (2005) used SPOT 5 data to map the

**1. Introduction** 

Yang Dingtian and Yang Chaoyu

*State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou* 

