Coastal waters are highly productive and diverse ecosystems, often dominated by marine
submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) and strongly affected by a range of human pressures …

Seagrasses provide a wide range of ecosystem services in coastal marine environments.
Despite their ecological and economic importance, these species are declining because of …

Seagrass meadows are a key ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area,
providing one of the natural heritage attributes underpinning the reef's outstanding universal …

Intertidal seagrass plays a vital role in estimating the overall health and dynamics of coastal
environments due to its interaction with tidal changes. However, most seagrass habitats …

Deep learning, a subset of machine learning that utilizes neural networks, has seen
significant advancements in recent years. These advancements have led to breakthroughs …

Macroalgae are a fundamental component of coastal ecosystems and play a key role in
sha** community structure and functioning. Macroalgae are currently threatened by …

Monitoring provides important information for the planning and execution of marine
environment preservation operations. Posidonia oceanica is one of the principal …

Underwater surveys conducted using divers or robots equipped with customized camera
payloads can generate a large number of images. Manual review of these images to extract …

This paper introduces a semi-supervised two-stage framework that leverages a large
collection of unlabelled seagrass data with the guidance of a small amount of labelled …

Dugongs (Dugong dugon) are seagrass specialists distributed in shallow coastal waters in
tropical and subtropical seas. The area and distribution of the dugongs' feeding trails, which …