Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for mapping marine biodiversity in coastal and shelf waters: Implications for marine management

OCEANS'10 IEEE Sydney, OCEANSSYD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Barrett, Neville ^a   Seiler, Jan ^a   Anderson, Tara ^b   Williams, Stefan ^c   Nichol, Scott ^b   Nicole Hill, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC HABITATS; FISHING ACTIVITIES; GEOPHYSICAL TOOLS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE CAPTURES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAPPING DATA; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE MANAGEMENT; MARINE ORGANISMS; MARINE PESTS; MULTI-BEAM; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; OFFSHORE WATER; PHYSICAL COMPOSITION; PHYSICAL VARIABLES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REMOTE ENVIRONMENT; SHELF WATERS; SPATIAL EXTENT;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BATHYMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS; REEFS; SEDIMENTS; SUBMERSIBLES; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 78349245566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSSYD.2010.5603860     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. N.S. Barrett and G.J. Edgar, "Distribution of benthic communities in the fjord-like Bathurst Channel ecosystem, south-western Tasmania, a globally anomalous estuarine protected area," Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, in press.
2. G.J. Edgar, Australian marine habitats in temperate waters. Sydney, Aust: Reed New Holland, 2001.
3. http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/mpa/publications/pubs/nrsmpa-report. pdf
4. www.environment.gov.au/about/programs/cerf/research.html#marinebio.
5. S.L. Nichol, T.J. Anderson, M. McArthur, N. Barrett, A.D. Heap, Southeast Tasmania Temperate Reef Survey: Post Survey Report. Geoscience Australia Record. Canberra: Geoscience Australia, 2009, pp.1-73.
6. K.E. Kohler and S.M. Gill, "Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe): A Visual Basic program for the determination of coral and substrate coverage using random point count methodology" Computers and Geosciences, vol. 32, pp. 1259-1269, 2006.
7. N.L. Andrew and A.J. Underwood, "Patterns of abundance in the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii on the central coast of New South Wales" J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., Vol. 131, pp. 61-80, 1989.
8. N.L. Andrew, "Spatial heterogeneity, sea urchin grazing, and habitat structure on reefs in temperate Australia" Ecology, vol. 74, pp. 292-302, 1993.
9. http://www.seagis.com.au/.
10. D.A. Abdo, J.W. Seager, E.S. Harvey, J.I. McDonald, G.A. Kendrick, and M.R. Shortis, "Efficiently measuring complex sessile epibenthic organisms using a novel photogrammetric technique" J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., vol. 339, pp. 120-133, 2006.