A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 10; p. e0141039
• Main Authors: Althaus, Franziska, Hill, Nicole, Ferrari, Renata, Edwards, Luke, Przeslawski, Rachel, Schönberg, Christine H. L., Stuart-Smith, Rick, Barrett, Neville, Edgar, Graham, Colquhoun, Jamie, Tran, Maggie, Jordan, Alan, Rees, Tony, Gowlett-Holmes, Karen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 28.10.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animals; Annotations; Benthos (Aquatic organisms); Bias; Biota; Cameras; Classification; Conservation of Natural Resources; Coral reefs; Datasets; Earth science; Ecosystem; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Identification and classification; Image classification; Invertebrates; Marine ecosystems; Marine environment; Microbiological research; Multidisciplinary research; Substrates; Taxonomy; Taxonomy (Biology); Terminology; Underwater; Underwater photography; Video data; Australia; Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141039

Imagery collected by still and video cameras is an increasingly important tool for minimal impact, repeatable observations in the marine environment. Data generated from imagery includes identification, annotation and quantification of biological subjects and environmental features within an image....