One of Marine Bio-images’ areas of expertise is Marine Habitat Mapping. We have undertaken a great many mapping studies in the past 20 years, these include biotope mapping of the isle of Scilly sublittoral soft sediments, biotope mapping of the littoral and sublittoral habitats of the Dornoch Firth, biotope mapping of Plymouth Sound soft sediment and reef areas, habitat mapping within Lyme Bay, and habitat mapping of the sublittoral within Lamlash Bay No-take Zone (Isle of Arran).\u00a0 We use a variety of techniques, depending on depth, turbidity and the size and scale of the features to be mapped.\u00a0 We have particular expertise in combining drop-down and towed camera systems with diver spot surveys.\u00a0 This technique is highly cost-effective, providing a wide coverage (using camera systems) along with very detailed data collected by divers.<\/p>\n

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Dense bed of brittlestars (Ophiothrix fragilis), Lyme Bay, Southwest England, UK. Dense aggregations of brittlestars are a distinctive feature of lyme Bay.<\/p><\/div>\n

We also use acoustic techniques, including side scan sonar, to provide detail on the seabed releif and likley sediment type.\u00a0 For soft sediment areas we will ground truth this by grab sampling.<\/p>\n

Habitats are subsequently mapped using GIS to produce detailed geo-referenced habitat maps for the features of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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