| Biogenic reefs provide a wide spectrum of ecosystem functions and services, such as biodiversity hotspot, coastal protection, and fishing practices. Honeycomb worm (Sabellaria alveolata) reefs, in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel (France), constitute the largest intertidal bioconstruction in Europe but undergo anthropogenic pressures (aquaculture-stemmed food/space competition and siltation, fishing-driven trampling). Very high-resolution (VHR) airborne optical data enable cost-efficient biophysical measurements of reef colonies, strongly expected for conservation approaches. A synergy of remotely sensed airborne optical imagery, calibration/validation photoquadrat ground-truth (202/101, respectively), and artificial neural network (ANN) modelling is first... |
