Dr Mitchell Lyons
Research Fellow and Lecturer
School of the Environment
Remote Sensing Research Centre
Researcher biography
I am a postdoc in the Remote Sensing Research Centre in the School of the Environment, and my research can be described as a mixture of ecology, geography and statistics. I finished my PhD in 2013, at The University of Queensland, which focused on developing new remote sensing methods for long term monitoring and change detection in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. After this I focused on automated monitoring of seagrass environments using remote sensing and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). I then moved to the UNSW and shifted focus to application of modern statistical and modelling approaches for large scale vegetation classification and mapping problems, with a side interest in drone-acquired image data. I also teach some remote sensing, as well as programming and statistics in various short courses and workshops (http://environmentalcomputing.net/).
My focus now at UQ is working on remote sensing and modelling applications for mapping coastal and marine environments like seagrass and coral reefs. The projects I work on range from local scale applications (like Quandamooka, Queensland) through to regional (Great Barrier Reef, tropical northern Australia) and global scale (e.g., Allen Coral Atlas). My primary activities include developing cloud-based classification and mapping algorithms and accuracy assessment.
Technically speaking, my expertise lies in remote sensing and ecological modelling (statistics and machine learning), and I generally take a computational programming (R and Python specifically, and JavaScript on the Google Earth Engine) approach. Non-technically speaking, a family with two young kids and a small farm (I live down on Ngarigo country) take up most of my time, and if there's any left over, I love getting into the river or the ocean.
Publications
Book Chapters
Kovacs, Eva M., Tibbetts, Hannah L., Baltais, Simon, Lyons, Mitch, Loder, Jennifer and Roelfsema, Chris (2019). Wetland and benthic cover changes in Moreton Bay. Moreton Bay Quandamooka and catchment: past, present and future. (pp. 211-226) edited by Ian R. Tibbetts, Peter C. Rothlisberg, David T. Neil, Tamara A. Homburg, David T. Brewer and Angela H. Arthington. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Moreton Bay Foundation.
Lyons, Mitch, Phinn, Stuart and Roelfsema, Chris (2019). Moreton Bay and catchment urban expansion and vegetation change. Moreton Bay Quandamooka and catchment: past, present and future. (pp. 181-186) edited by Ian R. Tibbetts, Peter C. Rothlisberg, David T. Neil, Tamara A. Homburg, David T. Brewer and Angela H. Arthington. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Moreton Bay Foundation.
Kendrick, Gary A., Hovey, Renae K., Lyons, Mitchell, Roelfsema, Chris, Montoya, Leonardo Ruiz and Phinn, Stuart (2018). Australian seagrass seascapes: present understanding and future research directions. Seagrasses of Australia: structure, ecology and conservation. (pp. 257-286) edited by Anthony W. D. Larkum, Gary A. Kendrick and Peter J. Ralph. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71354-0_9
Phinn, Stuart, Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva, Canto, Robert, Lyons, Mitch, Saunders, Megan and Maxwell, Paul (2018). Mapping, monitoring and modelling seagrass using remote sensing techniques. Seagrasses of Australia: structure, ecology and conservation. (pp. 445-487) edited by Anthony W. D. Larkum, Gary A. Kendrick and Peter J. Ralph. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71354-0_15
Journal Articles
Lyons, Mitchell B., Murray, Nicholas J., Kennedy, Emma V., Kovacs, Eva M., Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Phinn, Stuart R., Acevedo, Rodney Borrego, Alvarez, Alexandra Ordoñez, Say, Chantel, Tudman, Paul, Markey, Kathryn, Roe, Meredith, Canto, Robert F., Fox, Helen E., Bambic, Brianna, Lieb, Zoë, Asner, Gregory P., Martin, Paulina M., Knapp, David E., Li, Jiwei, Skone, Matthew, Goldenberg, Eldan, Larsen, Kirk and Roelfsema, Chris M. (2024). New global area estimates for coral reefs from high-resolution mapping. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1 (2) 100015, 100015. doi: 10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100015
Le Breton, Tom, Schweickle, Laura, Dunne, Craig, Lyons, Mitchell and Ooi, Mark (2023). Fire frequency and severity mediate recruitment response of a threatened shrub following severe megafire. Fire Ecology, 19 (1) 67. doi: 10.1186/s42408-023-00217-z
Aravena, Ricardo A., Lyons, Mitchell B. and Keith, David A. (2023). High resolution forest masking for seasonal monitoring with a regionalized and colourimetrically assisted chorologic typology. Remote Sensing, 15 (14) 3457, 1-33. doi: 10.3390/rs15143457
Aravena, Ricardo A., Lyons, Mitchell B. and Keith, David A. (2023). Holistic reduction to compare and create new indices for global inter-seasonal monitoring: case study for high resolution surface water mapping. Remote Sensing, 15 (8) 2063, 1-28. doi: 10.3390/rs15082063
Budd, Alyssa M., Schils, Tom, Cooper, Madalyn K., Lyons, Mitchell B., Mills, Matthew S., Deinhart, Mari E., Le Port, Agnès, Huerlimann, Roger and Strugnell, Jan M. (2023). Monitoring threatened species with environmental DNA and open ecological data: local distribution and habitat preferences of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini). Biological Conservation, 278 109881, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109881
Murray, Nicholas J., Bunting, Pete, Canto, Robert F., Hilarides, Lammert, Kennedy, Emma V., Lucas, Richard M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Navarro, Alejandro, Roelfsema, Chris M., Rosenqvist, Ake, Spalding, Mark D., Toor, Maren and Worthington, Thomas A. (2022). coastTrain: a global reference library for coastal ecosystems. Remote Sensing, 14 (22) 5766, 1-11. doi: 10.3390/rs14225766
Murray, Nicholas J., Phinn, Stuart P., Fuller, Richard A., DeWitt, Michael, Ferrari, Renata, Johnston, Renee, Clinton, Nicholas and Lyons, Mitchell B. (2022). High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019. Scientific Data, 9 (1) 542, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01635-5
Murray, Nicholas J., Worthington, Thomas A., Bunting, Pete, Duce, Stephanie, Hagger, Valerie, Lovelock, Catherine E., Lucas, Richard, Saunders, Megan I., Sheaves, Marcus, Spalding, Mark, Waltham, Nathan J. and Lyons, Mitchell B. (2022). High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands. Science, 376 (6594), 744-749. doi: 10.1126/science.abm9583
Callaghan, Corey T., Bowler, Diana E., Blowes, Shane A., Chase, Jonathan M., Lyons, Mitchell B. and Pereira, Henrique M. (2022). Quantifying effort needed to estimate species diversity from citizen science data. Ecosphere, 13 (4). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3966
McMahon, Kathryn, Kilminster, Kieryn, Canto, Robert, Roelfsema, Chris, Lyons, Mitchell, Kendrick, Gary A., Waycott, Michelle and Udy, James (2022). The risk of multiple anthropogenic and climate change threats must be considered for continental scale conservation and management of seagrass habitat. Frontiers in Marine Science, 09 837259. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.837259
Collette, Justin C., Sommerville, Karen D., Lyons, Mitchell B., Offord, Catherine A., Errington, Graeme, Newby, Zoe-Joy, von Richter, Lotte and Emery, Nathan J. (2022). Stepping up to the thermogradient plate: a data framework for predicting seed germination under climate change. Annals of Botany, 129 (7), 787-794. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac026
Cunliffe, Andrew M., Anderson, Karen, Boschetti, Fabio, Brazier, Richard E., Graham, Hugh A., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Astor, Thomas, Boer, Matthias M., Calvo, Leonor G., Clark, Patrick E., Cramer, Michael D., Encinas-Lara, Miguel S., Escarzaga, Stephen M., Fernández-Guisuraga, José M., Fisher, Adrian G., Gdulová, Kateřina, Gillespie, Breahna M., Griebel, Anne, Hanan, Niall P., Hanggito, Muhammad S., Haselberger, Stefan, Havrilla, Caroline A., Heilman, Phil, Ji, Wenjie, Karl, Jason W., Kirchhoff, Mario, Kraushaar, Sabine, Lyons, Mitchell B., Marzolff, Irene ... Wojcikiewicz, Robert (2022). Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non-forest ecosystems. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 8 (1), 57-71. doi: 10.1002/rse2.228
Kovacs, Eva M., Roelfsema, Chris, Udy, James, Baltais, Simon, Lyons, Mitchell and Phinn, Stuart (2022). Cloud processing for simultaneous mapping of seagrass meadows in optically complex and varied water. Remote Sensing, 14 (3) 609. doi: 10.3390/rs14030609
Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Kovacs, Eva M., Callaghan, David, Wettle, Magnus, Markey, Kathryn, Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Tudman, Paul, Roe, Meredith, Kennedy, Emma V., Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Murray, Nicholas and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). How Much Shallow Coral Habitat Is There on the Great Barrier Reef?. Remote Sensing, 13 (21) 4343, 4343. doi: 10.3390/rs13214343
Baxter, Caitlan, Mallen-Cooper, Max, Lyons, Mitchell B. and Cornwell, William K. (2021). Measuring reflectance of tiny organisms: the promise of species level biocrust remote sensing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12 (11), 2174-2183. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13690
Kennedy, Emma V., Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Kovacs, Eva M., Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Roe, Meredith, Phinn, Stuart R., Larsen, Kirk, Murray, Nicholas J., Yuwono, Doddy, Wolff, Jeremy and Tudman, Paul (2021). Reef Cover, a coral reef classification for global habitat mapping from remote sensing. Scientific Data, 8 (1) 196, 196. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00958-z
Aravena, Ricardo A., Lyons, Mitchell B., Roff, Adam and Keith, David A. (2021). A colourimetric approach to ecological remote sensing: case study for the rainforests of South-Eastern Australia. Remote Sensing, 13 (13) 2544, 2544. doi: 10.3390/rs13132544
Murray, Nicholas J., Kennedy, Emma V., alvarez-Romero, Jorge G. and Lyons, Mitchell B. (2021). Data freshness in ecology and conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 36 (6), 485-487. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.03.005
Li, Jiwei, Knapp, David E., Lyons, Mitchell, Roelfsema, Chris, Phinn, Stuart, Schill, Steven R. and Asner, Gregory P. (2021). Automated global shallow water bathymetry mapping using Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing, 13 (8) 1469, 1469. doi: 10.3390/rs13081469
Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell, Murray, Nicholas, Kovacs, Eva M., Kennedy, Emma, Markey, Kathryn, Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Ordoñez Alvarez, Alexandra, Say, Chantel, Tudman, Paul, Roe, Meredith, Wolff, Jeremy, Traganos, Dimosthenis, Asner, Gregory P., Bambic, Brianna, Free, Brian, Fox, Helen E., Lieb, Zoe and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Workflow for the generation of expert-derived training and validation data: a view to global scale habitat mapping. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 643381, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.643381
Mills, Charlotte H., Wijas, Baptiste, Gordon, Christopher E., Lyons, Mitchell, Feit, Anna, Wilkinson, Aodan and Letnic, Mike (2021). Two alternate states: shrub, bird and mammal assemblages differ on either side of the Dingo Barrier Fence. Australian Zoologist, 41 (3), 534-549. doi: 10.7882/az.2021.005
Fisher, Adrian G., Mills, Charlotte H., Lyons, Mitchell, Cornwell, William K. and Letnic, Mike (2021). Remote sensing of trophic cascades: multi-temporal landsat imagery reveals vegetation change driven by the removal of an apex predator. Landscape Ecology, 36 (5), 1341-1358. doi: 10.1007/s10980-021-01206-w
Callaghan, Corey T., Watson, James E. M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Cornwell, William K. and Fuller, Richard A. (2021). Conservation birding: a quantitative conceptual framework for prioritizing citizen science observations. Biological Conservation, 253 108912, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108912
Raoult, Vincent, Colefax, Andrew P., Allan, Blake M., Cagnazzi, Daniele, Castelblanco-Martinez, Nataly, Ierodiaconou, Daniel, Johnston, David W., Landeo-Yauri, Sarah, Lyons, Mitchell, Pirotta, Vanessa, Schofield, Gail and Butcher, Paul A. (2020). Operational protocols for the use of drones in marine animal research. Drones, 4 (4) 64, 64. doi: 10.3390/drones4040064
Callaghan, Corey T., Poore, Alistair G. B., Major, Richard E., Cornwell, William K., Wilshire, John H. and Lyons, Mitchell B. (2020). How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30 (1), 217-234. doi: 10.1007/s10531-020-02088-1
Inman, Victoria L. and Lyons, Mitchell B. (2020). Automated inundation mapping over large areas using Landsat data and Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing, 12 (8) 1348, 1-12. doi: 10.3390/rs12081348
Francis, Roxane J., Lyons, Mitchell B., Kingsford, Richard T. and Brandis, Kate J. (2020). Counting mixed breeding aggregations of animal species using drones: lessons from waterbirds on semi-automation. Remote Sensing, 12 (7) 1185, 1-17. doi: 10.3390/rs12071185
Lyons, Mitchell B., Roelfsema, Chris M., Kennedy, Emma V., Kovacs, Eva M., Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Markey, Kathryn, Roe, Meredith, Yuwono, Doddy M., Harris, Daniel L., Phinn, Stuart R., Asner, Gregory P., Li, Jiwei, Knapp, David E., Fabina, Nicholas S., Larsen, Kirk, Traganos, Dimosthenis and Murray, Nicholas J. (2020). Mapping the world's coral reefs using a global multiscale earth observation framework. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 6 (4) rse2.157, 557-568. doi: 10.1002/rse2.157
Li, Jiwei, Knapp, David E., Fabina, Nicholas S., Kennedy, Emma V., Larsen, Kirk, Lyons, Mitchell B., Murray, Nicholas J., Phinn, Stuart R., Roelfsema, Chris M. and Asner, Gregory P. (2020). A global coral reef probability map generated using convolutional neural networks. Coral Reefs, 39 (6), 1805-1815. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-02005-6
Callaghan, Corey T., Wilshire, John H., Martin, John M., Major, Richard E., Lyons, Mitchell B. and Kingsford, Richard T. (2020). The greenspace bird calculator: A citizen-driven tool for monitoring avian biodiversity in urban greenspaces. Australian Zoologist, 40 (3), 468-476. doi: 10.7882/az.2019.009
Callaghan, Corey T., Major, Richard E., Cornwell, William K., Poore, Alistair G. B., Wilshire, John H. and Lyons, Mitchell B. (2019). A continental measure of urbanness predicts avian response to local urbanization. Ecography, 43 (4), 528-538. doi: 10.1111/ecog.04863
Morales-Barquero, Lucia, Lyons, Mitchell B., Phinn, Stuart R. and Roelfsema, Chris M. (2019). Trends in remote sensing accuracy assessment approaches in the context of natural resources. Remote Sensing, 11 (19) 2305, 2305. doi: 10.3390/rs11192305
Lee, Marissa R., Powell, Jeff R., Oberle, Brad, Cornwell, William K., Lyons, Mitchell, Rigg, Jessica L. and Zanne, Amy E. (2019). Good neighbors aplenty: fungal endophytes rarely exhibit competitive exclusion patterns across a span of woody habitats. Ecology, 100 (9) e02790, 1-15. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2790
Callaghan, Corey T., Major, Richard E., Lyons, Mitchell B., Martin, John M., Wilshire, John H., Kingsford, Richard T. and Cornwell, William K. (2019). Using citizen science data to define and track restoration targets in urban areas. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56 (8) 1365-2664.13421, 1998-2006. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13421
Lyons, Mitchell B., Brandis, Kate J., Murray, Nicholas J., Wilshire, John H., McCann, Justin A., Kingsford, Richard T. and Callaghan, Corey T. (2019). Monitoring large and complex wildlife aggregations with drones. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10 (7), 1024-1035. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13194
Sims, Ryan J., Lyons, Mitchell and Keith, David A. (2019). Limited evidence of compositional convergence of restored vegetation with reference states after 20 years of livestock exclusion. Austral Ecology, 44 (4), 734-746. doi: 10.1111/aec.12744
Callaghan, Corey T., Bino, Gilad, Major, Richard E., Martin, John M., Lyons, Mitchell B. and Kingsford, Richard T. (2019). Heterogeneous urban green areas are bird diversity hotspots: insights using continental-scale citizen science data. Landscape Ecology, 34 (6), 1231-1246. doi: 10.1007/s10980-019-00851-6
Murray, Nicholas J., Phinn, Stuart R., DeWitt, Michael, Ferrari, Renata, Johnston, Renee, Lyons, Mitchell B., Clinton, Nicholas, Thau, David and Fuller, Richard A. (2019). The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats. Nature, 565 (7738), 222-225. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0805-8
O'Brien, Katherine R., Waycott, Michelle, Maxwell, Paul, Kendrick, Gary A., Udy, James W., Ferguson, Angus J. P., Kilminster, Kieryn, Scanes, Peter, McKenzie, Len J., McMahon, Kathryn, Adams, Matthew P., Samper-Villarreal, Jimena, Collier, Catherine, Lyons, Mitchell, Mumby, Peter J., Radke, Lynda, Christianen, Marjolijn J. A. and Dennison, William C. (2018). Seagrass ecosystem trajectory depends on the relative timescales of resistance, recovery and disturbance. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 134, 166-176. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.09.006
Callaghan, Corey T., Brandis, Kate J., Lyons, Mitchell B., Ryall, Sharon and Kingsford, Richard T. (2018). A comment on the limitations of UAVS in wildlife research - the example of colonial nesting waterbirds. Journal of Avian Biology, 49 (9) e01825, e01825. doi: 10.1111/jav.01825
Bugnot, A. B., Lyons, M. B., Scanes, P., Clark, G. F., Fyfe, S. K., Lewis, A. and Johnston, E. L. (2018). A novel framework for the use of remote sensing for monitoring catchments at continental scales. Journal of Environmental Management, 217, 939-950. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.03.058
Callaghan, Corey T., Major, Richard E., Lyons, Mitchell B., Martin, John M. and Kingsford, Richard T. (2018). The effects of local and landscape habitat attributes on bird diversity in urban greenspaces. Ecosphere, 9 (7) e02347, 1-17. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2347
Addicott, E., Laurance, S., Lyons, M., Butler, D. and Neldner, J. (2018). When rare species are not important: linking plot-based vegetation classifications and landscape-scale mapping in Australian savanna vegetation. Community Ecology, 19 (1), 67-76. doi: 10.1556/168.2018.19.1.7
Kovacs, Eva, Roelfsema, Christiaan, Lyons, Mitchell, Zhao, Shihu and Phinn, Stuart (2018). Seagrass habitat mapping: how do Landsat 8 OLI, Sentinel-2, ZY-3A, and Worldview-3 perform?. Remote Sensing Letters, 9 (7), 686-695. doi: 10.1080/2150704X.2018.1468101
Lyons, Mitchell B., Keith, David A., Phinn, Stuart R., Mason, Tanya J. and Elith, Jane (2018). A comparison of resampling methods for remote sensing classification and accuracy assessment. Remote Sensing of Environment, 208, 145-153. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.026
Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva, Roos, Pauline, Terzano, Dilva, Lyons, Mitchell and Phinn, Stuart (2018). Use of a semi-automated object based analysis to map benthic composition, Heron Reef, Southern Great Barrier Reef. Remote Sensing Letters, 9 (4), 324-333. doi: 10.1080/2150704X.2017.1420927
Lyons, Mitchell, Brandis, Kate, Callaghan, Corey, McCann, Justin, Mills, Charlotte, Ryall, Sharon and Kingsford, Richard (2018). Bird interactions with drones, from individuals to large colonies. Australian Field Ornithology, 35, 51-56. doi: 10.20938/afo35051056
Callaghan, Corey T., Lyons, Mitchell B., Martin, John M., Major, Richard E. and Kingsford, Richard T. (2017). Assessing the reliability of avian biodiversity measures of urban greenspaces using eBird citizen science data. Avian Conservation and Ecology, 12 (2). doi: 10.5751/ace-01104-120212
Murray, Nicholas J., Keith, David A., Bland, Lucie M., Ferrari, Renata, Lyons, Mitchell B., Lucas, Richard, Pettorelli, Nathalie and Nicholson, Emily (2017). The role of satellite remote sensing in structured ecosystem risk assessments. Science of the Total Environment, 619-620, 249-257. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.034
Foster, Scott D., Hill, Nicole A. and Lyons, Mitchell (2017). Ecological grouping of survey sites when sampling artefacts are present. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C-Applied Statistics, 66 (5), 1031-1047. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12211
Samper-Villarreal, Jimena, Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva M., Adi, Novi S., Lyons, Mitchell, Mumby, Peter J., Lovelock, Catherine E., Saunders, Megan I. and Phinn, Stuart R. (2017). Seagrass morphometrics at species level in Moreton Bay, Australia from 2012 to 2013. Scientific Data, 4 (1) 170060, 170060. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.60
Warton, David I., Lyons, Mitchell, Stoklosa, Jakub and Ives, Anthony R. (2016). Three points to consider when choosing a LM or GLM test for count data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7 (8), 882-890. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.12552
Lyons, Mitchell B., Keith, David A., Warton, David I., Somerville, Michael and Kingsford, Richard T. (2016). Model-based assessment of ecological community classifications. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27 (4), 704-715. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12400
Lyons, Mitchell, Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva, Samper-Villarreal, Jimena, Saunders, Megan, Maxwell, Paul and Phinn, Stuart (2015). Rapid monitoring of seagrass biomass using a simple linear modelling approach, in the field and from space. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 530, 1-14. doi: 10.3354/meps11321
Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Lyons, Mitchell, Dunbabin, Matthew, Kovacs, Eva and Phinn, Stuart R. (2015). Integrating field survey data with satellite image data to improve shallow water seagrass maps: the role of AUV and snorkeller surveys?. Remote Sensing Letters, 6 (2), 135-144. doi: 10.1080/2150704X.2015.1013643
Kilminster, Kieryn, McMahon,Kathryn, Waycott, Michelle, Kendrick, Gary A., Scanes, Peter, McKenzie, Len, O'Brien, Katherine R., Lyons, Mitchell, Ferguson, Angus, Maxwell, Paul, Glasby, Tim and Udy, James (2015). Unravelling complexity in seagrass systems for management: Australia as a microcosm. Science of the Total Environment, 534, 97-109. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.061
Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell, Kovacs, Eva M., Maxwell, Paul, Saunders, Megan I., Samper-Villarreal, Jimena and Phinn, S.R. (2014). Multi-temporal mapping of seagrass cover, species and biomass: A semi-automated object based image analysis approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 150, 172-187. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.05.001
Kennedy, Robert E., Andrefouet, Serge, Cohen, Warren B., Gomez, Cristina, Griffiths, Patrick, Hais, Martin, Healey, Sean P., Helmer, Eileen H., Hostert, Patrick, Lyons, Mitchell B., Meigs, Garrett W., Pflugmacher, Dirk, Phinn, Stuart R., Powell, Scott L., Scarth, Peter, Sen, Susmita, Schroeder, Todd A., Schneider, Annemarie, Sonnenschein, Ruth, Vogelmann, James E., Wulder, Michael A. and Zhu, Zhe (2014). Bringing an ecological view of change to landsat-based remote sensing. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12 (6), 339-346. doi: 10.1890/130066
Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva M., Saunders, Megan I., Phinn, Stuart, Lyons, Mitchell and Maxwell, Paul (2013). Challenges of remote sensing for quantifying changes in large complex seagrass environments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 133, 161-171. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2013.08.026
Saunders, Megan I., Leon, Javier, Phinn, Stuart R., Callaghan, David P., O'Brien, Katherine R., Roelfsema, Chris M., Lovelock, Catherine E., Lyons, Mitchell B. and Mumby, Peter J. (2013). Coastal retreat and improved water quality mitigate losses of seagrass from sea level rise. Global Change Biology, 19 (8), 2569-2583. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12218
Dudaniec, Rachael Y., Rhodes, Jonathan R., Wilmer, Jessica Worthington, Lyons, Mitchell, Lee, Kristen E., McAlpine, Clive A. and Carrick, Frank N. (2013). Using multilevel models to identify drivers of landscape-genetic structure among management areas. Molecular Ecology, 22 (14), 3752-3765. doi: 10.1111/mec.12359
Lyons, Mitchell B., Roelfsema, Chris M. and Phinn, Stuart R. (2013). Towards understanding temporal and spatial dynamics of seagrass landscapes using time-series remote sensing. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 120, 42-53. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2013.01.015
Knudby, Anders, Jupiter, Stacy, Roelfsema, Chris, Lyons, Mitchell and Phinn, Stuart (2013). Mapping coral reef resilience indicators using field and remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing, 5 (3), 1311-1334. doi: 10.3390/rs5031311
Lyons, Mitchell B., Phinn, Stuart R. and Roelfsema, Chris M. (2012). Long term land cover and seagrass mapping using Landsat and object-based image analysis from 1972 to 2010 in the coastal environment of South East Queensland, Australia. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 71, 34-46. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.05.002
Dekker, Arnold G., Phinn, Stuart R., Anstee, Janet, Bissett, Paul, Brando, Vittorio E., Casey, Brandon, Fearns, Peter, Hedley, John, Klonowski, Wojciech, Lee, Zhong P., Lynch, Merv, Lyons, Mitchell, Mobley, Curtis and Roelfsema, Chris (2011). Intercomparison of shallow water bathymetry, hydro-optics, and benthos mapping techniques in Australian and Caribbean coastal environments. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 9 (9), 396-425. doi: 10.4319/lom.2011.9.396
Knudby, Anders, Roelfsema, Chris, Lyons, Mitchell, Phinn, Stuart and Jupiter, Stacy (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 (3), 460-483. doi: 10.3390/rs3030460
Lyons, Mitchell, Phinn, Stuart and Roelfsema, Chris (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. Remote Sensing, 3 (1), 42-64. doi: 10.3390/rs3010042
Conference Papers
Saunders, Megan I., Baldock, Tom, Brown, Christopher J., Callaghan, David P., Golshani, Aliastair, Hamylton, Sarah, Leon, Javier, Lovelock, Catherine E., Lyons, Mitchell B., O'Brien, Katherine R., Mumby, Peter J., Phinn, Stuart R. and Roelfsema, Christiaan M. (2013). Direct and indirect impacts of predicted sea level rise on seagrass. AMSA 2013: Australian Marine Science Golden Jubilee Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 7-11 July 2013. Kilkivan, QLD, Australia: Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA).
Kovacs, Eva, Roelfsema, Chris, Lyons, Mitchell, Phinn, Stuart and Dunbabin, Matthew (2013). Seagrass meadow dynamics derived from classification of high spatial resolution satellite images. IGARSS 2013: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 21-26 July, 2013.
Lyons, Mitchell, Roelfsema, Chris, Dunbabin, Matthew, Kovacs, Eva and Phinn, Stuart (2013). Improving seagrass mapping calibration and validation using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). IGARSS 2013: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 21-26 July, 2013.
Roelfsema, Chris, Lyons, Mitchell, Kovacs, Eva, Phinn, Stuart and Dunbabin, Matthew (2013). Mapping changes in seagrass properties from high spatial resolution satellite image data: 2004-2013. IGARSS 2013: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 21-26 July, 2013.
Lyons, M., Phinn, S. and Roelfsema, C. (2011). Long term land cover and seagrass mapping using landsat sensors from 1972 - 2010 in the coastal environment of South East Queensland, Australia. 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring, Sydney, Australia, 10-15 April 2011.
Lyons, Mitchell B., Phinn, Stuart R. and Roelfsema, Chris M. (2010). Long term monitoring of seagrass distribution in Moreton Bay, Australia, from 1972-2010 using landsat MSS, TM, ETM+. 2010 30th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2010), Honolulu, HI, United States, 25-30 July 2010. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651878
Phinn, S. R., Roelfsema, C. M., Lyons, M., Kamal, M. and Johansen, K. (2008). Linking structures to processes: Multi-scale image and field data analyses. SPIE '08, Noumea, New Caledonia, 17-21 November, 2008.
Research Report
Thesis
Lyons, Mitchell Bradley (2012). Mapping and monitoring the long term spatial dynamics of land cover and seagrass distribution in South East Queensland, Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland.
Data Collections
Eva Kovacs, Chris Roelfsema, Stuart Phinn, Stuart R. PHinn, Mitchell Lyons, James Udy and Simon Baltais (2021). Seagrass cover map for the optically complex waters of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia (2015). Pangaea. (Dataset) doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.937501
Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Lyons, Mitchell, Kovacs, Eva, Maxwell, Paul, Saunders, Megan, Samper-Villarreal, Jimena and Phinn, Stuart R. (2016). Habitat map of seagrass cover derived from a supervised moderate-spatial-resolution multi-spectral satellite image, integrated with manual delineation and coincident field data, Moreton Bay, 2004. Pangaea. (Dataset)
Samper-Villarreal, Jimena , Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Adi, Novi , Saunders, Megan , Lyons, Mitchell , Kovacs, Eva , Mumby, Peter, Lovelock, Catherine E. and Phinn, Stuart R. (2016). Morphometrics of seagrasses at species level, Moreton Bay, Australia determined from core samples collected in 2012-2013. Pangaea. (Dataset)
Lyons, Mitchell, Roelfsema, Christiaan M. and Phinn, Stuart R. (2015). Seagrass time-series analysis products, in Moreton Bay, Australia, with links to GeoTIFFs. Pangaea. (Dataset) doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.843546
Lyons, Mitchell, Phinn, Stuart R. and Roelfsema, Christiaan M. (2015). Time-series of seagrass maps from 1972 to 2010, in Moreton Bay, Australia, with links to GeoTIFFs. Pangaea. (Dataset) doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.843545
Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Lyon, Mitchell, Kovacs, Eva, Maxwell, Paul, Saunders, Megan, Samper-Villarreal, Jimena and Phinn, Stuart R. (2015). Multi-temporal mapping of seagrass cover, species and biomass of the Eastern Banks, Moreton Bay, Australia, with links to shapefiles.. Pangaea. (Dataset) doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.833767