A comprehensive overview of technologies for species and habitat monitoring and conservation

JJ Lahoz-Monfort, MJL Magrath - BioScience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The range of technologies currently used in biodiversity conservation is staggering, with
innovative uses often adopted from other disciplines and being trialed in the field. We …

The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

M Canals, CK Pham, M Bergmann… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The seafloor covers some 70% of the Earth's surface and has been recognised as a major
sink for marine litter. Still, litter on the seafloor is the least investigated fraction of marine …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience

RB Wynn, VAI Huvenne, TP Le Bas, BJ Murton… - Marine geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have a wide range of applications in
marine geoscience, and are increasingly being used in the scientific, military, commercial …

Towards automated annotation of benthic survey images: Variability of human experts and operational modes of automation

O Beijbom, PJ Edmunds, C Roelfsema, J Smith… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Global climate change and other anthropogenic stressors have heightened the need to
rapidly characterize ecological changes in marine benthic communities across large scales …

The application of remote sensing to seagrass ecosystems: an overview and future research prospects

MS Hossain, JS Bujang, MH Zakaria… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This review evaluates various methods employed to produce seagrass habitat maps using
optical and acoustic remote-sensing (RS) techniques coupled with in situ sampling to …

Generation and visualization of large‐scale three‐dimensional reconstructions from underwater robotic surveys

M Johnson‐Roberson, O Pizarro… - Journal of Field …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Robust, scalable simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms support the
successful deployment of robots in real‐world applications. In many cases these platforms …

Robotic tools for deep water archaeology: Surveying an ancient shipwreck with an autonomous underwater vehicle

B Bingham, B Foley, H Singh, R Camilli… - Journal of Field …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The goals of this article are twofold. First, we detail the operations and discuss the results of
the 2005 Chios ancient shipwreck survey. This survey was conducted by an international …

Exactly sparse delayed-state filters for view-based SLAM

RM Eustice, H Singh, JJ Leonard - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports the novel insight that the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
information matrix is< emphasis emphasistype=" boldital"> exactly</emphasis> sparse in a …

Monitoring of benthic reference sites: using an autonomous underwater vehicle

SB Williams, OR Pizarro, MV Jakuba… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have established an Australia-wide observation program that exhibits recent
developments in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems to deliver precisely …

The biology and ecology of black corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia)

D Wagner, DG Luck, RJ Toonen - Advances in marine biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Antipatharians, commonly known as black corals, are treasured by many cultures for
medicinal purposes and to produce jewellery. Despite their economic and cultural …