简介：Number1GlobalSeaLevelChangeandThermalContributionZUOJuncheng,ZHANGJianli,DULing,LIPeiliang,andLILei

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简介：AdetailedsurveyofthereefsintheNanshaIslands’seathatareofstrategicimportanceisconducivetotheirfuturedevelopment.Inthisstudy,atotalof50Landsat8operationallandimager(OLI)imageswereusedtoanalyzethegeologicalfeaturesandspectralcharacteristicsoftheNanshareefs.Theexposedislands/sandbanks,reefflatsandsub-tidalreefswereidentifiedwiththenear-infraredband,theredandgreenbands,andtheblueband,respectively.BasedontherelationshipsamongvariouscharacteristicsandbandsillustratedintheOLIimages,themaximumbetween-clustervariancethresholdalgorithm(OTSUmethod)andthemathematicalmorphologywereemployedtoextractcharacteristicparametersofthespatialgeometryofthereefsfromtoptobottom,whichweresubsequentlyoperatedbyaseriesofpost-processingmethodssuchasvectorization,simplificationandtopologicalanalysis.Amongthe132standalonereefsand16atollsthatareidentifiedinthestudy,fourreefshaveyettobenamedintheStandardNamesofVariousIslandsintheSouthChinaSeaandthewebsiteNanshaIslandsOnline(http://www.nansha.org/).Another24onesareexposedtotheatmosphereevenduringhightides.TaipingIslandwithanareaof0.57km~2representsthelargestexposedgeologicalfeature.Thisstudydemonstratedtheapplicabilityofmedium-resolutionsatelliteimagestoderivethecoralreefinformationeffectivelyandthusprovidedinformationfortherelateddepartmentsthatareresponsibletomanagethecoast.Animprovedresolutionofmultispectralbandswiththepanchromaticbandinhigherspatialresolution(15mforOLIimage)isexpectedtoprovideanoptimumsatellitebasedapproachtomapmarinehabitats.