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Coral Observation by the Boat-Based Fluorescence Imaging Lidar

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A boat-based coral observation system was developed using lidar (light detection and ranging) technique for large-area coral monitoring. The system comprises an ultraviolet (UV) pulsed laser and a gated image-intensified CCD (ICCD) camera to obtain fluorescent images of the seafloor. Coral observations were conducted using a glass-bottom boat at Taketomi Island, Okinawa, Japan, and the distributions of live corals along the boat tracks were obtained.

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the Global Environment Research Account for National Institute, Japan. The authors express their appreciation to all those who participated in this study and thank the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan (MLIT) and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE) for permitting publication of this paper.

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  1. National Maritime Research Institute, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

    Masahiko Sasano & Motonobu Imasato

  2. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Hiroya Yamano & Hiroyuki Oguma

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  1. Masahiko Sasano
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Correspondence to Masahiko Sasano .

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  1. Directeur d’études (h) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie (M.I.O.) Oceanomed, Bâtiment Méditerranée, Marseille cedex 09, France

    Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi

  2. General-Secretary of S.F.J.O. (*) of France Correspondant Asie-Pacifique (JAMSTEC), Institut Français pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (Ifremer) Conseiller Principal Politique Maritime et Gouvernance, Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex, France

    Yves Hénocque

  3. Conseillor of S.F.J.O. (*) of Japan Tokyo, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuyuki Koike

  4. Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute ( AORI) President of S.F.J.O. (*) of Japan, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-shi, Japan

    Teruhisa Komatsu

  5. Directeur de Recherche émérite, Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie (M.I.O.) Oceanomed, Bâtiment Méditerranée, Marseille cedex 09, France

    Georges Stora

  6. Responsable de la Direction scientifi que, Institut Français pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (Ifremer), Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

    Marie-Hélène Tusseau-Vuillemin

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Sasano, M., Imasato, M., Yamano, H., Oguma, H. (2015). Coral Observation by the Boat-Based Fluorescence Imaging Lidar. In: Ceccaldi, HJ., Hénocque, Y., Koike, Y., Komatsu, T., Stora, G., Tusseau-Vuillemin, MH. (eds) Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_27

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