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A drone’s eye view: A preliminary assessment of the efficiency of drones in mapping shallow-water benthic assemblages

  • Andrea Francesca Bellia
  • Julian Evans
  • Sandro Lanfranco

The study assesses consumer drone efficiency for surveying shallow-water benthic cover. We hypothesised that using a drone would reduce duration, and manpower requirements, while increasing accuracy, relative to manual surveys. Results obtained during this study clearly indicated that automated drone surveys were faster and more accurate than manual survey methods under most circumstances. This result has important implications for the scientific and economic aspects of the process and would have a multiplicative effect in monitoring programs that require regular surveys.

  • Keywords:
  • Drones,
  • Drone survey,
  • Benthic mapping,
  • Aerial imagery,
  • Image analysis,
  • k-clustering,
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Andrea Francesca Bellia

University of Malta, Malta - ORCID: 0000-0001-7426-6141

Julian Evans

University of Malta, Malta - ORCID: 0000-0001-7837-5927

Sandro Lanfranco

University of Malta, Malta - ORCID: 0000-0002-0360-7065

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Titolo del capitolo

A drone’s eye view: A preliminary assessment of the efficiency of drones in mapping shallow-water benthic assemblages

Autori

Andrea Francesca Bellia, Julian Evans, Sandro Lanfranco

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English

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1.50

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Anno di pubblicazione

2020

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© 2020 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Eighth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurement Techniques”

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Livorno (Italy) June 2020

Curatori

Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi

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2020

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© 2020 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1

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978-88-5518-147-1

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