Benthic Habitat Classification Based on Conventional and Multispectral Imagery
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2022) | Viewed by 550
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optical methods of seafloor mapping; blending techniques for construction of photomosaics from imagery acquired underwater; seafloor structure reconstruction from multiple views;probabilistic reconstruction of color in underwater imagery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Most of the world’s coastlines are dominated by ecologically and economically important species that provide numerous ecosystem services. The additional structure provided by temperate and tropical reefs sustain food webs by providing food and shelter for a wide variety of species including herbivores, detrivores, predators and other filter feeders.
Main source of information about habitats is imagery—acoustic techniques have too low resolution and may provide indirect data only about substrate and facies. Due to strong wavelength-dependent absorption of light by water, conventional RGB imagery often yields deceiving color measurements with only useful data being sizes and shapes. Multispectral imagery supplies researchers with the most reliable information, but requires accurate knowledge of many parameters, including water properties, illuminant spectrum, etc.
Prof. Dr. Yuri Rzhanov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- benthic habitat monitoring
- species’ abundance
- RGB underwater imagery
- multispectral imagery
- 2.5D underwater mapping
