Authors: Hung Chak Ho John E Mylroie Louis R Infante John C Rodgers
Publish Date: 2013/05/21
Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 1369-1377
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that island karst could successfully indicate paleoclimate change in the Quaternary Period However because of the relative inaccessibility of carbonate islands and their rural settings the exploration of island karst features has been limited To enhance future research remote sensing and geospatial modeling were used in this study to improve the island karst exploration record The results showed that fuzzybased spatial modeling could successfully predict the island karst distributions on a simple carbonate island The accuracy of the model was above 90 This method could apply to other coastal karst regions and carbonate islands in the futureWe hereby acknowledge the financial support from Exxon Mobil We also acknowledge Ms Pat Kambesis Mr Jon Sumrall and Mr Erik Larson from the Department of Geosciences Mississippi State University for their help in fieldwork data collection We acknowledge the comments of remote sensing techniques from Dr Deepak Mishra Department of Geography University of Georgia and the constructive input from the anonymous reviewers
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