This project was completed for my “Advanced Remote Sensing” final exam and my goal was to use the skills I had learned in class to apply to a real life problem – locating fish at the Texas Coast! In my experience fishing at the Texas coast, I have been able to find fish Redfish (Sciaenops ocellatus) and Speckled Sea Trout (Cynoscion nebulosus) in a few different types of habitat. Redfish often hang out in shallow mangrove flats or oyster beds during the warmer months while Speckled Sea Trout can be found in shallow seagrass beds with potholes – spots within seagrass beds that reveal hard bottom. Satellite imagery uses wavelengths outside of the visible spectrum (what we can see with our human eye) that tells a more detailed story than pictures from Google Maps can tell.
