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• Beger, M., Babcock, R., Booth, D. J., Bucher, D., Condie, S. A., Creese, B., Cvitanovic, C., Dalton, S. J., Harrison, P., Hoey, A., Jordan, A., Loder, J., Malcolm, H., Purcell, S. W., Roelfsema, C., Sachs, P., Smith, S. D., Sommer, B., Stuart-Smith, R., Thomson, D., Wallace, C. C., Zann, M. and Pandolfi, J. M. (2011). Research challenges to improve the management and conservation of subtropical reefs to tackle climate change threats. Ecological Management & Restoration, 12: e7–e10. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-8903.2011.00573.x
• Bhandari, S., Phinn, S. & Gill, T. (2011). Assessing viewing and illumination geometry effects on the MODIS vegetation index (MOD13Q1) time series: Implications for monitoring phenology and disturbances in forest communities in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32, 7513-7538. doi:10.1080/01431161.2010.524675
• Campbell, G., Phinn, S. R. & Daniel, P. (2011). The specific inherent optical properties of three sub-tropical and tropical water reservoirs in Queensland, Australia. Hydrobiologia, 658, 233-252. doi:10.1007/s10750-010-0476-4
• Campbell, G., Phinn, S. R., Dekker, A. G. & Brando, V. E. (2011). Remote sensing of water quality in an Australian tropical freshwater impoundment using matrix inversion and MERIS images. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 2402-2414. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.05.003
• Cooper, T. F., Berkelmans, R., Ulstrup, K. E., Weeks, S., Radford, B., Jones, A. M., Doyle, J., Canto, M., O'Leary, R. A. & van Oppen, M. J. H. (2011). Environmental factors controlling the distribution of symbiodinium harboured by the coral acropora millepora on the great barrier reef.  PloS one, 6. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025536.
• Couturier, L. I. E., Jaine, F. R. A., Townsend, K. A., Weeks, S. J., Richardson, A. J. & Bennett, M. B. (2011). Distribution, site affinity and regional movements of the manta ray, Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868), along the east coast of Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 62, 628-637. doi:10.1071/mf10148
• Dekker, A. G., Phinn, S. R., Anstee, J., Bissett, P., Brando, V. E., Casey, B., Fearns, P., Hedley, J., Klonowski, W., Lee, Z. P., Lynch, M., Lyons, M., Mobley, C. & Roelfsema, C. (2011). Intercomparison of shallow water bathymetry, hydro-optics, and benthos mapping techniques in Australian and Caribbean coastal environments. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 9, 396-425. doi:10:4319/lom.2011.9.396
• Earp, A., Hanson, C. E., Ralph, P. J., Brando, V. E., Allen, S., Baird, M., Clementson, L., Daniel, P., Dekker, A. G., Fearns, P. R. C. S., Parslow, J., Strutton, P. G., Thompson, P. A., Underwood, M., Weeks, S. J. & Doblin, M. A. (2011). Review of fluorescent standards for calibration of in situ fluorometers: Recommendations applied in coastal and ocean observing programs. Optics Express, 19, 26768-26782.
• Johansen, K., Tiede, D., Blaschke, T., Arroyo, L. A. & Phinn, S. (2011). Automatic geographic object based mapping of streambed and riparian zone extent from LiDAR data in a temperate rural urban environment, Australia. Remote Sensing, 3(6), 1139-1156. doi:10.3390/rs3061139
• Kamal, M. & Phinn, S. (2011). Hyperspectral Data for Mangrove Species Mapping: A Comparison of Pixel-Based and Object-Based Approach. Remote Sensing, 3, 2222-2242. doi:10.3390/rs3102222 Open Access
• Knudby, A., Roelfsema, C., Lyons, M., Phinn, S. & Jupiter, S. (2011). Mapping fish community variables by Integrating field and satellite data, object-based image analysis and modeling in a traditional Fijian fisheries management area. Remote Sensing, 3, 460-483. doi:10.3390/rs3030460
• Lewis, D. L. & Phinn, S. (2011). Accuracy assessment of vegetation community maps generated by aerial photography interpretation: Perspective from the tropical savanna, Australia. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 5(1). doi:10.1117/1.3662885
• Lyons, M., Phinn, S.R. & Roelfsema, C. (2011). Integrating Quickbird multi-spectral satellite and field data: Mapping Bathymetry, Seagrass Cover, Seagrass Species and Change in Moreton Bay, Australia in 2004 and 2007. The Remote Sensing Journal, 3(1), 42-64; doi:10.3390/rs3010042
• Plaganyi, E., Weeks, S., Skewes, T., Gibbs, M., Poloczanska, E., Norman-Lopez, A., Blamey, L., Soares, M., Robinson, W. (2011). Assessing the adequacy of current fisheries management under changing climate: a southern synopsis. Ices Journal of Marine Science 68, 1305-1317, doi:10.1093/icesims/fsr049.
• Redondo-Rodriguez, A., Weeks, S. J., Berkelmans, R., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. & Lough, J. M. (2011). Climate variability of the Great Barrier Reef in relation to the tropical Pacific and El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Marine and Freshwater Research. 63, 34-47, doi:10.1071/mf11151.
• Rohner, C., Richardson, A., Marshall, A., Weeks, S., & Pierce, S. (2011). How large is the world's largest fish? Measuring whale sharks Rhincodon typus with laser photogrammetry. Journal of Fish Biology, 78, 378-385. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02861.x
• Scopélitis, J., Andréfouët, S., Phinn, S., Done, T. & Chabanet, P. (2011). Coral colonisation of a shallow reef flat in response to rising sea level: Quantification from 35 years of remote sensing data at Heron Island, Australia. Coral Reefs, 30, 951-965. doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0774-y
• Schöettker, B., Phinn, S. R. & Schmidt, M. (2010). How does the global Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) product relate to regionally developed land cover and vegetation products in a semi-arid Australian savanna? Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 4. doi:10.1117/1.3463721

* denotes a refereed conference proceedings article 

• Hedley, J. Koetz, B., Phinn, S.R. and Roelfsema, C. (2011). Coral reef applications for Sentinel science products and data synergy. Sentinel Potential Science Products -Assessment & Consolidation Workshop, Frascati, Italy, 23-24 March 2011. 
• Lewis, D., Phinn, S.R and Pfitzner, K. (2011). Pixel-based Image Classification to Map Vegetation Communities using SPOT5 and Landsat TM in a Northern Territory Tropical Savanna, Australia. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRS, USA. Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia. April, 2011.  
• Lyons, M., Phinn, S.R. and Roelfsema, C.M. (2011). Long Term Mapping of the Coastal Environment Using Landsat Sensors From 1972 – 2010: Land Cover and Seagrass Communities in South East Queensland and Moreton Bay, Australia. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRS, USA. Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia. April, 2011.  
• O’Brien K.R. , A. Grinham, C.M. Roelfsema, M.I. Saunders,  W.C. Dennison (2011). Viability criteria for the presence of the seagrass Zostera muelleri in Moreton Bay, based on benthic light dose. In proceedings: MODSIM2011 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MSSANZ 2011 December 12, 2011 – December 16, 2011, Perth.
• Roelfsema, C., Phinn, S.R., Jupiter, S. and Comley, J. (2011). Mapping Large Coral Reef Systems in Fiji at Geomorphic and Benthic Community Spatial Scales from Object Based Analysis of High Spatial Resolution Imagery. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE, USA. Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia. April, 2011. 

• Blaschke, T., Johansen, K., and Tiede, D. (2011). Object based image analysis for vegetation mapping and monitoring. In Q. Weng, Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing: Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis. ISBN: 978-1-4200-9175-5.

• Roelfsema, C.M., S.R. Phinn and R.Canto  (2011). Mapping Lyngbya majuscula: Eastern Banks, Moreton Bay February, April, May, July 2010, Brisbane, Biophysical Remote Sensing Group, Centre for Spatial Environmental Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.