Automated benthic understanding with multimodal observations

该项目旨在提供具有成本效益的技术来探索和监测海洋环境。该项目将开发新的方法，对大范围、多模式海底勘测进行分类，这些海底勘测由数万幅图像与大比例尺、低分辨率遥感数据共同配准的高分辨率视觉3D巨型图像组成。这些知识对于设计具有成本效益的、可扩展的系统以探索、绘制和监测澳大利亚的海洋环境至关重要。在更广泛的层面上，该项目开发的方法和技术有可能在陆地和潮间带生态等其他领域得到应用，将积极影响扩大到海底环境以外。

This project aims to deliver cost-effective techniques to explore and monitor marine environments. The project will develop novel methods for classification of large extent, multimodality seafloor surveys consisting of high-resolution visual 3D gigamosaics made of tens of thousands of images coregistered with broad-scale, lower resolution remote sensing data. This knowledge is essential for designing cost-effective, scalable systems to explore, map and monitor Australia's marine environments. At a broader level, the approach and the techniques developed in this project have the potential to have applications in other areas such as terrestrial and intertidal ecology, extending positive impacts beyond benthic environments.