This review examines the various strategies and methods used to produce benthic habitat
maps using acoustic remote sensing techniques, coupled with in situ sampling. The …

Seagrass meadows are key elements of marine ecosystems as they affect the physical,
chemical and biological environment and provide habitats for fish and invertebrates. Human …

The very shallow marine basin of Puck Lagoon in the southern Baltic Sea, on the Northern
coast of Poland, hosts valuable benthic habitats and cultural heritage sites. These include …

Marine spatial planning and conservation need underpinning with sufficiently detailed and
accurate seabed substrate and habitat maps. Although multibeam echosounders enable us …

Detailed seabed substrate maps are increasingly in demand for effective planning and
management of marine ecosystems and resources. It has become common to use remotely …

Vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are ecosystems at risk from the effects of fishing or
other kinds of disturbance, as determined by the vulnerability of their components (eg …

A comprehensive EM300 multibeam echo-sounder dataset acquired from Cook Strait, New
Zealand, is used to develop a regional-scale objective characterisation of the seafloor …

In this study we outline the techniques used to transform multibeam acoustic data into spatial
layers that can be used for predictive habitat modelling. The results allow us to identify …

Habitat map** data are increasingly being recognised for their importance in
underpinning marine spatial planning. The ability to collect ultra-high resolution (cm) …

Multibeam echosounders (MBES) are increasingly becoming the tool of choice for marine
habitat map** applications. In turn, the rapid expansion of habitat map** studies has …