Over the past decade, drones have become a popular tool for wildlife management and
research. Drones have shown significant value for animals that were often difficult or …

Common methods of ocean remote sensing and seafloor surveying are mainly carried out
by airborne and spaceborne hyperspectral imagers. However, the water column hinders the …

The challenges associated with acquiring the clear images of objects in underwater
environment are difficult to overcome due to the absorptive and scattering nature of …

Hyperspectral imagers enable the collection of high-resolution spectral images exploitable
for the supervised classification of habitats and objects of interest (OOI). Although this is a …

Marine ecosystem monitoring requires observations of its attributes at different spatial and
temporal scales that traditional sampling methods (eg, RGB imaging, sediment cores) …

Accurate and low-impact monitoring of scallop abundance is critical for stock assessment,
especially in sensitive habitats. The possibility of using low-impact hyperspectral imaging …

Monitoring marine fauna is essential for mitigating the effects of disturbances in the marine
environment, as well as reducing the risk of negative interactions between humans and …

This paper is a section of several preliminary studies of the Underwater Drones Group of the
Università degli Studi “Roma Tre” Science Department: We describe the study philosophy …

Among aquatic biota, corals provide shelter with sufficient nutrition to a wide variety of
underwater life. However, a severe decline in the coral resources can be noted in the last …

An underwater hyperspectral imager (UHI) detection system is designed and developed,
and a push-broom scan imaging mode was used. The telescope system adopts an image …