Underwater hyperspectral imaging (UHI): A review of systems and applications for proximal seafloor ecosystem studies

JC Montes-Herrera, E Cimoli, V Cummings, N Hill… - Remote sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marine ecosystem monitoring requires observations of its attributes at different spatial and
temporal scales that traditional sampling methods (eg, RGB imaging, sediment cores) …

Neural network recognition of marine benthos and corals

A Raphael, Z Dubinsky, D Iluz, NS Netanyahu - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
We present thorough this review the developments in the field, point out their current
limitations, and outline its timelines and unique potential. In order to do so we introduce the …

Monitoring of coral reefs using artificial intelligence: A feasible and cost-effective approach

M Gonzalez-Rivero, O Beijbom, A Rodriguez-Ramirez… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ecosystem monitoring is central to effective management, where rapid reporting is essential
to provide timely advice. While digital imagery has greatly improved the speed of underwater …

Coral reef monitoring, reef assessment technologies, and ecosystem-based management

DO Obura, G Aeby, N Amornthammarong… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem
services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures …

A new deep learning engine for coralnet

Q Chen, O Beijbom, S Chan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
CoralNet is a cloud-based website and platform for manual, semi-automatic and automatic
analysis of coral reef images. Users access CoralNet through optimized web-based …

Forecasting intensifying disturbance effects on coral reefs

J Vercelloni, B Liquet, EV Kennedy… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anticipating future changes of an ecosystem's dynamics requires knowledge of how its key
communities respond to current environmental regimes. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is …

Automated classification of three-dimensional reconstructions of coral reefs using convolutional neural networks

BM Hopkinson, AC King, DP Owen… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Coral reefs are biologically diverse and structurally complex ecosystems, which have been
severally affected by human actions. Consequently, there is a need for rapid ecological …

DNA metabarcoding marker choice skews perception of marine eukaryotic biodiversity

JM Casey, E Ransome, AG Collins… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding is an increasingly popular technique to investigate biodiversity;
however, many methodological unknowns remain, especially concerning the biases …

Spatially explicit seagrass extent mapping across the entire mediterranean

D Traganos, CB Lee, A Blume, D Poursanidis… - Frontiers in marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The seagrass Posidonia oceanica is the main habitat-forming species of the coastal
Mediterranean, providing millennial-scale ecosystem services including habitat …

[HTML][HTML] Fast and accurate mapping of fine scale abundance of a VME in the deep sea with computer vision

N Piechaud, KL Howell - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
With growing anthropogenic pressure on deep-sea ecosystems, large quantities of data are
needed to understand their ecology, monitor changes over time and inform conservation …