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Biodiversity Monitoring in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas: Scientific and Methodological Challenges

Diversity, 2022
Biodiversity is a portmanteau word to indicate the variety of life at all levels from genes to ecosystems, but it is often simplistically equated to species richness; the word ecodiversity has thus been coined to address habitat variety.
Carlo Nike Bianchi, Annalisa Azzola, Silvia Cocito, Carla Morri, Alice Oprandi, Andrea Peirano, Sergio Sgorbini, Monica Montefalcone   +7 more
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A Multi-Stage Approach Combining Very High-Resolution Satellite Image, GIS Database and Post-Classification Modification Rules for Habitat Mapping in Hong Kong

Remote Sensing, 2021
Identification and mapping of various habitats with sufficient spatial details are essential to support environmental planning and management. Considering the complexity of diverse habitat types in a heterogeneous landscape, a context-dependent mapping ...
Ivan H. Y. Kwong, Frankie K. K. Wong, Tung Fung, Eric K. Y. Liu, Roger H. Lee, Terence P. T. Ng   +5 more
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A global map of terrestrial habitat types [PDF]

Scientific Data, 2020
AbstractWe provide a global, spatially explicit characterization of 47 terrestrial habitat types, as defined in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) habitat classification scheme, which is widely used in ecological analyses, including for quantifying species’ Area of Habitat.
Jung, Martin, Dahal, Prabhat Raj, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Donald, Paul F., De Lamo, Xavier, Lesiv, Myroslava, Kapos, Valerie, Rondinini, Carlo, Visconti, Piero   +8 more
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Mapping for coral reef conservation: comparing the value of participatory and remote sensing approaches

Ecosphere, 2016
Detailed habitat maps are critical for conservation planning, yet for many coastal habitats only coarse‐resolution maps are available. As the logistic and technological constraints of habitat mapping become increasingly tractable, habitat map comparisons
Jennifer C. Selgrath, Chris Roelfsema, Sarah E. Gergel, Amanda C. J. Vincent   +3 more
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Fully convolutional neural networks applied to large-scale marine morphology mapping

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
In this study we applied for the first time Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNNs) to a marine bathymetric dataset to derive morphological classes over the entire Irish continental shelf.
Riccardo Arosio, Riccardo Arosio, Brandon Hobley, Andrew J. Wheeler, Andrew J. Wheeler, Andrew J. Wheeler, Fabio Sacchetti, Luis A. Conti, Thomas Furey, Aaron Lim, Aaron Lim, Aaron Lim   +11 more
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Modelling habitats in karst landscape by integrating remote sensing and topography data

Open Geosciences, 2018
Field mapping is an accurate but also time consuming method of detailed mapping of habitat types. Levels of habitat types are usually hierarchically nested at several levels.
Valjavec Mateja Breg, Ciglič Rok, Oštir Krištof, Ribeiro Daniela   +3 more
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Assessing the use of harmonized multisource backscatter data for thematic benthic habitat mapping

Science of Remote Sensing, 2021
Legacy seabed mapping datasets are increasingly common as the need for detailed seabed information is recognized. Acoustic backscatter data from multibeam echosounders can be a useful surrogate for seabed properties and are commonly used for benthic ...
Benjamin Misiuk, Myriam Lacharité, Craig J. Brown   +2 more
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Multispectral Multibeam Echo Sounder Backscatter as a Tool for Improved Seafloor Characterization

Geosciences, 2019
The establishment of multibeam echosounders (MBES), as a mainstream tool in ocean mapping, has facilitated integrative approaches towards nautical charting, benthic habitat mapping, and seafloor geotechnical surveys. The combined acoustic response of the
Craig J. Brown, Jonathan Beaudoin, Mike Brissette, Vicki Gazzola   +3 more
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Mapping Habitat Structures of Endangered Open Grassland Species (E. aurinia) Using a Biotope Classification Based on Very High-Resolution Imagery

Remote Sensing
Analyzing habitat conditions and mapping habitat structures are crucial for monitoring ecosystems and implementing effective conservation measures, especially in the context of declining open grassland ecosystems in Europe.
Steffen Dietenberger, Marlin M. Mueller, Andreas Henkel, Clémence Dubois, Christian Thiel, Sören Hese   +5 more
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Exploration in Mapping Kernel-Based Home Range Models from Remote Sensing Imagery with Conditional Adversarial Networks

Remote Sensing, 2018
Kernel-based home range models are widely-used to estimate animal habitats and develop conservation strategies. They provide a probabilistic measure of animal space use instead of assuming the uniform utilization within an outside boundary. However, this
Ruobing Zheng, Guoqiang Wu, Chao Yan, Renyu Zhang, Ze Luo, Baoping Yan   +5 more
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