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In situ data supporting image processing were collected in a field campaign performed from 28 February to 4 March 2015 at the time of sensors overpasses. A hybrid approach based on bio-optical modeling and supervised classification techniques was applied to atmospherically-corrected Landsat-8 data. Bottom depth estimations, to be used in the classification process of shallow waters, were in good agreement with depth soundings (R2 = 0.87). Corals were classified with producer and user accuracies of 58% and 77%, while a lower accuracy (producer and user accuracies of 50%) was found for the seagrass due to the patchy distribution of meadows; accuracies more than 88% were obtained for mangrove forests. The classification indicated the presence of 18 mangroves sites with extension larger than 5 km2; for 15 of those the coexistence of corals and seagrass were also found in the fronting bays, suggesting a significant rate of biodiversity for the study area.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8010002","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,23]],"date-time":"2015-12-23T06:52:19Z","timestamp":1450853539000},"page":"2","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Mapping Submerged Habitats and Mangroves of Lampi Island Marine National Park (Myanmar) from in Situ and Satellite Observations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3937-4988","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Claudia","family":"Giardino","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IREA, Optical Remote Sensing Group, Via Bassini 15, Milano 20133, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7185-8464","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mariano","family":"Bresciani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IREA, Optical Remote Sensing Group, Via Bassini 15, Milano 20133, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Fava","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab., University of Milano-Bicocca, DISAT, Pzza Della Scienza 1, Milano 20126, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2957-609X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Erica","family":"Matta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IREA, Optical Remote Sensing Group, Via Bassini 15, Milano 20133, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2193-5695","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vittorio","family":"Brando","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IREA, Optical Remote Sensing Group, Via Bassini 15, Milano 20133, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Roberto","family":"Colombo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab., University of Milano-Bicocca, DISAT, Pzza Della Scienza 1, Milano 20126, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"541","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1523-1739.2009.01394.x","article-title":"Use of habitats as surrogates of biodiversity for efficient coral reef conservation planning in Pacific Ocean islands","volume":"24","author":"Dalleau","year":"2010","journal-title":"Conserv. 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