Title
AUV Benthic Habitat Mapping in South Eastern Tasmania.
Abstract
This paper describes a two week deployment of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Sirius on the Tasman Peninsula in SE Tasmania and in the Huon Marine Protected Area (MPA) to the South West of Hobart. The objective of the deployments described in this work were to document biological assemblages associated with rocky reef systems in shelf waters beyond normal diving depths. At each location, multiple reefs were surveyed at a range of depths from approximately 50 m to 100 m depth. We illustrate how the AUV based imaging complements benthic habitat assessments to be made based on the ship-borne swath bathymetry. Over the course of the 10 days of operation, 19 dives were undertaken with the AUV covering in excess of 70 linear kilometers of survey and returning nearly 160,000 geo-referenced high resolution stereo image pairs. These are now being analysed to describe the distribution of benthic habitats in more detail.
Year
Venue
Field
2009
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Sirius,Marine protected area,Computer vision,Peninsula,Habitat,Computer science,Benthic zone,Oceanography,Artificial intelligence,Underwater vehicle,Stereo image,Reef
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
62
1610-7438
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.78
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan B. Williams166570.78
Oscar Pizarro217112.62
Michael V. Jakuba312211.64
Neville Barrett4382.10