Accurate determination of surface reference data in digital photographs in ice-free surfaces of Maritime Antarctica

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Pina, Pedro, Vieira, Goncalo, Bandeira, Lourenço, Mora, Carla
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Image analysis; Segmentation; Object-based classification; Ice-free surfaces; Polar regions; Bare Rock; Barton; Fildes; King George Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/28185; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.104

The ice-free areas of Maritime Antarctica show complex mosaics of surface covers, with wide patches of diverse bare soils and rock, together with various vegetation communities dominated by lichens and mosses. The microscale variability is difficult to characterize and quantify, but is essential for...