[Coral-List] Coral measurement papers

[Benjamin Neal]

Hello, I wanted to post news of two recent papers describing coral
measurement tools.

1) "Towards Automated Annotation of Benthic Survey Images: Variability of
Human Experts and Operational Modes of Automation
​" Beijbom et al, PLOS ONE, describes the operation, variability,  and
​methods for automated coral image annotation. These methods have the
possibility of greatly reducing the amount of time needed for image
analysis, and subsequently increasing the ability to sample much larger
areas/imagesets.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130312

​2)​

​"​
Methods and measurement variance for field estimations of coral colony
planar area using underwater photographs and semi-automated image
segmentation
​" Neal et al, *Environmental Monitoring and Assessment*, describes a
method, gives software, and outlines expected error for determining planar
area of small to medium sized coral colonies, which can be used to track
disease, growth, and size structure for massive-type colonies.

http://www.springer.com/-/0/AU6EaoFJxIV6JZQW6NOO

Thank you very much, and please feel free to contact me at b.neal at uq.edu.au
with any questions, Ben Neal

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*Benjamin Neal*






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