About the Authors

Simon D. Donner

simon.donner@ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gregory J. M. Rickbeil

Affiliation Integrated Remote Sensing Studio, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Scott F. Heron

Affiliations Coral Reef Watch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Global Science and Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America, Physics Department and Marine Geophysical Laboratory, College of Science, Technology and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

SF Heron is affiliated with the U.S. Government contractor, Global Science and Technology, Inc.; the authors declare that there are no competing interests and we adhere to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SDD SFH. Data curation: SDD GJMR. Formal analysis: SDD GJMR. Funding acquisition: SDD. Investigation: SDD GJMR SFH. Methodology: SDD GJMR. Project administration: SDD. Software: SDD GJMR. Supervision: SDD. Validation: SDD. Visualization: SDD GJMR. Writing – original draft: SDD. Writing – review & editing: SDD GJMR SFH.