High Resolution Landscape (2-D) Mosaics for Improved Coral Reef Monitoring Capability

Abstract

The overall objective of ESTCP project RC-201021 was to demonstrate the utility of underwater image mosaics for coral reef monitoring. The report includes solutions that were part of the tests team plan to overcome the problem of efficiently mapping and monitoring coral reef resources.This report is relevant to the Department of Defence (DoD) for several reasons. First, at least 46 US military facilities have adjacent coral reef sites. Second, federal policy mandates that DoD characterize, assess, and monitor underwater benthic communities at these sites to ensure that DoD operations do not lead to natural resource degradation. Third, coral reef ecosystems worldwide are presently threatened by increasing levels of both human and natural disturbance. Thus, monitoring efforts that can efficiently provide data that will help distinguish between reef degradation that can be directly attributed to DoD activities versus those that that are correlated with region-wide decline are of primary concern.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1106759

Entities

People

  • Cheryl A. Cooke
  • R. P. Reid
  • William Wild

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Fish
  • Governments
  • Habitats
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Marine Biology
  • Surveys
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering.