Benthic habitats of a sub-arctic fiard: the case study of Okak Bay, Labrador

• Main Author: Carpenter, Mallory
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Okak; Okak Bay; Labrador region
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/6094/; https://research.library.mun.ca/6094/1/Carpentor_Mallory.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/6094/3/Carpentor_Mallory.pdf

The objective of this thesis is to classify and map the nature and distribution of benthic marine habitats of Okak Bay. Okak Bay is an irregularly shaped, generally shallow, low elevation estuary best described as a fiard, on the central Labrador coast. Supervised classification of multibeam sonar b...