The underwater environment is gaining importance due to its role in enhancing the economy
of the world and improving relationships between different countries across the world. There …

Measuring biodiversity simultaneously in different locations, at different temporal scales, and
over wide spatial scales is of strategic importance for the improvement of our understanding …

Marine cabled video-observatories allow the non-destructive sampling of species at
frequencies and durations that have never been attained before. Nevertheless, the lack of …

Increasing interest in the acquisition of biotic and abiotic resources from within the deep sea
(eg, fisheries, oil–gas extraction, and mining) urgently imposes the development of novel …

The oceans cover more than two-thirds of the planet, representing the vastest part of natural
resources. Nevertheless, only a fraction of the ocean depths has been explored. Within this …

Despite the rapid increase in the number and applications of plankton imaging systems in
marine science, processing large numbers of images remains a major challenge due to …

Plankton are excellent indicators of ecosystem status and fisheries because of their pivotal
role in marine food webs and their core values in the integrated ecosystem assessment …

Given a sufficiently large training dataset, it is relatively easy to train a modern convolution
neural network (CNN) as a required image classifier. However, for the task of fish …

Planktonic organisms including phyto-, zoo-, and mixoplankton are key components of
aquatic ecosystems and respond quickly to changes in the environment, therefore their …

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have increasingly played a key role in monitoring
the marine environment, studying its physical-chemical parameters for the supervision of …