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A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme.
(2015)Imagery collected by still and video cameras is an increasingly important tool for minimal impact, repeatable observations in the marine environment. Data generated from imagery includes identification, annotation and ... -
Field Manuals for Marine Sampling in Australian Waters, Version 2.
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2020)The Marine Biodiversity Hub has developed a suite of field manuals to ensure that data collected by marine sampling platforms at different times and places across Australia are directly comparable. The Marine Sampling ... -
Comparison of sampling methods to assess benthic marine biodiversity. Are spatial and ecological relationships consistent among sampling gear?
(Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, 2015)Marine benthic biodiversity can be measured using a range of sampling methods, including benthic sleds or trawls, grabs, and imaging systems, each of which targets a particular community or habitat. Due to the high cost ... -
A Suite of Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters.
(2019)One of the main challenges in assessing marine biodiversity is the lack of consistent approaches to monitor it. This threatens to undermine ocean best practice in marine monitoring, as it impedes a reduction in the bias ... -
Marine Sampling Field Manual for Grabs and Box Corers [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)This Grab and Box Corer Field Manual includes gear designed to sample unconsolidated sediment and organisms on the seafloor. General steps are outlined in Figure 9.1 and described in detail in the sections ... -
Marine Sampling Field Manual for Benthic Sleds and Bottom Trawls [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)This Sled and Trawl Field Manual includes gear designed to sample organisms on the seafloor, excluding microbes and meiofauna (see chapters in Eleftheriou and Mcintyre 2005, Danovaro 2010 for such methods). ... -
Marine Sampling Field Manual for Towed Underwater Camera Systems [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)As still and video cameras can be mounted to tow bodies in a variety of ways (Figure 7.2, Table 7.1), this field manual does not mandate specific gear types. Rather, it provides recommendations for ... -
Marine Sampling Field Manual for Pelagic Stereo BRUVS (Baited Remote Underwater Videos) [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)This manual relates to gear designed to acquire digital video imagery of macro-organisms living in the ocean’s water column, from small zooplankton (Letessier et al. 2013a) to marine mega-vertebrates (Letessier ... -
Marine Sampling Field Manual for AUV's (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)The primary aim of this field manual is to establish a consistent approach to marine benthic sampling using AUVs and facilitate statistically sound comparisons between studies. This manual will focus on hover class ... -
Marine Sampling Field Manual for Benthic Stereo BRUVS (Baited Remote Underwater Videos) [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)This benthic stereo-BRUVs Field Manual includes gear designed to acquire imagery of demersal fish assemblages and their habitat within the field of view. A separate manual will address sampling pelagic fish ... -
Statistical Considerations for Monitoring and Sampling [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)This chapter will not follow the usual presentation for statistical design in ecology. Rather, we will focus on what we believe to be most important aspects from a practical (and management) ... -
Seafloor Mapping Field Manual for Multibeam Sonar [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)This manual refers to the use of multibeam or interferometric echosounders (referred herein as just multibeam or MBES) to conduct surveys of seafloor bathymetry and backscatter that can be used to derive maps of ... -
Choosing between strategies for designing surveys: autonomous underwater vehicles.
(2014)1. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), which collect images of marine habitats, are now an established sampling tool. The use of AUVs is becoming more widespread as they offer a non-destructive method to survey substantial ... -
CATAMI classification scheme for scoring marine biota and sub-strata in underwater imagery. Version 1.4.
(National Environmental Research Program, Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2014)Transforming raw underwater imagery into quantitative information useful for science and policy decisions requires substantial manual effort by human experts. This process will soon become unsustainable as the volume of ... -
Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters, Version 1. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918]
(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)Australia has one of the world’s largest marine estates that includes many vulnerable habitats and a high biodiversity, with many endemic species crossing a wide latitudinal range. The marine estate is used by a variety ...
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