Seagrass plays an important role in marine ecosystem. Plans for sustainable management of marine ecosystem should give due attention to this marine critical habitat. One effort to monitoring the long-term management of seagrass is to use spatial data using remote sensing techniques. Satellite imagery offers an efficient and cost-effective means of estimating water conditions in shallow environments. This study aims to map the coverage of the seagrass meadows using satellite images spatially, determine the species composition of the seagrass meadows, and examine the accuracy level from the results obtained by the Sentinel-2 images. Investigations reported here were conducted in the Riau Islands (4 Stations at Lingga Island and 2 Stations at Singkep Island) in Indonesia from 3 - 7 October 2020. The satellite image data used Sentinel-2 at the acquisition year of 2019 based on the method of Depth Invariant Index (DII) with Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification. The in situ observations were made from 6 October 2020, same with the validation date, to verify the data obtained through satellite imagery. This was needed for calculating the accuracy of results based on seagrass images and identifying the species using the Seagrass-Watch (Transect Quadrant). The result showed that the seagrass in the Riau Islands can be detected with the DII method with seagrass coverage area of 175 km2 from the satellite in Lingga and Singkep Island. Percentage of Seagrass coverage for all transects was estimated to be about 78%. The seagrasses species identified were: Halophila ovalis, Halophila minor, Thalassia hemprichii, and the dominant species was Enhalus acoroides.
Coastal conditions are closely related to the conditions of rivers and estuaries in the region and changes in the river condition caused by human activities will affect water turbidity. Rivers discharge which carries suspended materials and pollution to the sea have an important role in affecting Cirebon Water turbidity. The aim of this study is to estimate the turbidity using a smartphone application called HydroColor. The study data are obtained in September 2020. This study used Horiba U-10 and HydroColor as a method used to obtain the turbidity data of Cirebon Water. HydroColor is an advancement of technology that can be used to estimate water turbidity. Estimation method using HydroColor is a low-cost method because it only requires a gray card and a HydroColor that is available for iOS and Android for free. HydroColor uses a camera on a smartphone as a 3-band radiometer and produces reflectance values measured by HydroColor. Horiba U-10 data is used as in-situ data and is used to compared to HydroColor data to obtain a correlation between the two data. The results show that the correlation of HydroColor data with in-situ data is 0.91 and HydroColor tends to produce lower turbidity values than in-situ.
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