Compressed high-spatial-resolution imagery to train and validate seagrass percent cover mapping using sentinel-2 imagery

Key Points

• Seagrass percent cover mapping achieved high accuracy, enhancing coastal management efforts.
• The study demonstrates an accuracy rate exceeding 85% in identifying seagrass cover.
• Analysis using high-spatial-resolution imagery from Sentinel-2 facilitates better monitoring of marine environments.
• Improved methodologies for detecting seagrass cover could benefit future environmental assessments.