Acoustic habitat modelling for the mapping of biological communities

In the framework of the MAREBASSE project (‘‘Management, Research and Budgeting of Aggregates in Shelf Seas related to End-users’’, EV/02/18, Van Lancker et al. 2005) and the MESH project (“Mapping European Seabed Habitats, Interreg IIIb; www.searchmesh.net), biologically relevant habitat maps are produced, based on multibeam acoustic datasets, ground truthed with physical and biological samples. The habitat map production comprised of the following four key steps: (1) getting the best out of the ground truth data; (2) selecting and deriving the best available input and most appropriate data c... Mehr ...