Proximal remote sensing of seafloor communities with underwater imaging techniques ...
Concerns regarding the effects of marine biodiversity loss on ecosystem services have brought into focus the importance of seafloor communities and their functional role in global oceanic processes. By area, the seafloor represents the largest ecosystem on earth. As such, it should be characterized...
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University of Tasmania
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/26053522 https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Proximal_remote_sensing_of_seafloor_communities_with_underwater_imaging_techniques/26053522 |
| Summary: | Concerns regarding the effects of marine biodiversity loss on ecosystem services have brought into focus the importance of seafloor communities and their functional role in global oceanic processes. By area, the seafloor represents the largest ecosystem on earth. As such, it should be characterized in ways that are relevant to scientific, socio-economic, and conservation objectives. However, current approaches for studying seafloor communities, such as core sampling or underwater cameras, have shortfalls in their spatial, spectral, and/or temporal resolution that hinder the capacities of acquiring biodiversity or ecosystem process information, at the required spatio-temporal scales to track changes. This is a critical challenge for remote and difficult environments to work in, such as the Southern Ocean (SO) seafloor, resulting in a paucity of data from these regions. The study of the SO benthos is increasingly relying on underwater optical imaging techniques that increase scientific capacities to make ... |
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