In:
ICES Journal of Marine Science, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 71, No. 7 ( 2014-10-01), p. 1927-1931
Kurzfassung:
There has been a growing interest in the potential of Google Earth for scientific inquiries, and our previous paper (Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly, 2014. Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 450–454) on weirs and their catch in the Persian Gulf is a case in point. Garibaldi et al. (2014. Comment on: “Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catchs” by Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly. ICES Journal of Marine Science), while agreeing in principle with using Google Earth for fisheries-related purposes, criticized the assumptions, data, methodology, and results of this paper. Here, we refute their criticisms, notably by showing that the “derelict weirs” that they thought they had “ground-truthed” are not weirs at all, but another type of fishing gear in one case, and debris from a boat anchoring system in the other. We develop the theme that ground-truthing requires local knowledge, and provide recommendations for using Google Earth images in fisheries management.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1054-3139
,
1095-9289
DOI:
10.1093/icesjms/fsu103
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publikationsdatum:
2014
ZDB Id:
2463178-4
ZDB Id:
1468003-8
ZDB Id:
29056-7
SSG:
12
SSG:
21,3
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