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Benjamin Misiuk, Markus Diesing, Alec Aitken, Craig J. Brown, Evan N. Edinger and Trevor Bell
Seabed sediment composition is an important component of benthic habitat and there are many approaches for producing maps that convey sediment information to marine managers. Random Forest is a popular statistical method for thematic seabed sediment mapp...
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Semonn Oleksyn, Louise Tosetto, Vincent Raoult, Karen E. Joyce and Jane E. Williamson
The way an animal behaves in its habitat provides insight into its ecological role. As such, collecting robust, accurate datasets in a time-efficient manner is an ever-present pressure for the field of behavioural ecology. Faced with the shortcomings and...
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Peter Porskamp, Alex Rattray, Mary Young and Daniel Ierodiaconou
Developing quantitative and objective approaches to integrate multibeam echosounder (MBES) data with ground observations for predictive modelling is essential for ensuring repeatability and providing confidence measures for benthic habitat mapping. The s...
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Shaun Walbridge, Noah Slocum, Marjean Pobuda and Dawn J. Wright
High resolution remotely sensed bathymetric data is rapidly increasing in volume, but analyzing this data requires a mastery of a complex toolchain of disparate software, including computing derived measurements of the environment. Bathymetric gradients ...
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Peter Porskamp, Alex Rattray, Mary Young and Daniel Ierodiaconou
Developing quantitative and objective approaches to integrate multibeam echosounder (MBES) data with ground observations for predictive modelling is essential for ensuring repeatability and providing confidence measures for benthic habitat mapping. The s...
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Evgenia V. Dorokhova, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, Dmitry V. Dorokhov, Liubov A. Kuleshova, Anxo Mena, Tatiana Glazkova and Viktor A. Krechik
Multidisciplinary studies have allowed us to describe the abiotic landscapes and, thus, reveal the ichnological and benthic foraminifera trends in a deep-water gateway. Mesoscale landscape mapping is presented based on the bathymetric position index, sub...
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Francesco Immordino, Mattia Barsanti, Elena Candigliota, Silvia Cocito, Ivana Delbono and Andrea Peirano
Sustainable and ecosystem-based marine spatial planning is a priority of Pacific Island countries basing their economy on marine resources. The urgency of management coral reef systems and associated coastal environments, threatened by the effects of cli...
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Craig J. Brown, Jonathan Beaudoin, Mike Brissette and Vicki Gazzola
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...
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Saharsh Barve, Jody M. Webster and Rohitash Chandra
Environmental damage has been of much concern, particularly in coastal areas and the oceans, given climate change and the drastic effects of pollution and extreme climate events. Our present-day analytical capabilities, along with advancements in informa...
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Margaret F.J. Dolan, Rebecca E. Ross, Jon Albretsen, Jofrid Skarðhamar, Genoveva Gonzalez-Mirelis, Valérie K. Bellec, Pål Buhl-Mortensen and Lilja R. Bjarnadóttir
The use of habitat distribution models (HDMs) has become common in benthic habitat mapping for combining limited seabed observations with full-coverage environmental data to produce classified maps showing predicted habitat distribution for an entire stu...
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Jason McIlvenny, Duncan Tamsett, Philip Gillibrand and Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy
Sediment banks within a fast-flowing tidal channel, the Inner Sound in the Pentland Firth, were mapped using multi-frequency side-scan sonar. This novel technique provides a new tool for seabed sediment and benthic habitat mapping. The sonar data are sup...
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Mischa Schönke, Lars Wiesenberg, Inken Schulze, Dennis Wilken, Alexander Darr, Svenja Papenmeier and Peter Feldens
Quantitative acoustic marine habitat mapping needs to consider the impact of macrobenthic organisms on backscatter data. However, the sensitivity of hydroacoustic systems to epibenthic life is poorly constrained. This study explores the impact of a benth...
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Arthur Trembanis, Alimjan Abla, Ken Haulsee and Carter DuVal
This study utilizes repeated geoacoustic mapping to quantify the morphodynamic response of the nearshore to storm-induced changes. The aim of this study was to quantitatively map the nearshore zone of Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) to determi...
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Kelly Kingon
Many countries have classification standards for their environmental resources including criteria for classifying coastal and marine ecosystems. Until 2012, the United States just had a nationwide protocol for classifying terrestrial and aquatic habitats...
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Kelly Kingon
Many countries have classification standards for their environmental resources including criteria for classifying coastal and marine ecosystems. Until 2012, the United States just had a nationwide protocol for classifying terrestrial and aquatic habitats...
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Silvia N. Bourguignon, Alex C. Bastos, Valéria S. Quaresma, Fernanda V. Vieira, Hudson Pinheiro, Gilberto Menezes Amado-Filho, Rodrigo Leão De Moura and João Batista Teixeira
Shelf morphology and sedimentary regimes are influenced by processes operating at different temporal and spatial scales and are important records of sea level changes and sediment supply and/or carbonate production. The northern continental shelf of Espí...
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