From pixels to habitats
Remote sensing produces classes; ground-truthing gives them names. Divers, drop cameras and towed video record what actually lives at a set of points, and those points train and test the map.
- Chapter 1 · Mapping and data
- Introductory
- 5 min read
Ground-truthing: how divers and cameras validate a habitat map
A map is only as good as the observations behind it. Why every class needs eyes on the seabed.
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See Mediterranean Sea in the geoportal Then switch on: Group 1: Seagrass beds · Group 2: Macroalgal forests
Sample Sample content — created to show how the Knowledge Platform works. It is not an official Life Mapper publication.
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- Chapter
- Mapping and data
- Level
- Introductory · 5 min read
- On the map
- See Mediterranean Sea in the geoportal ↗
- Geographic area
- Thematic area
- Habitat group
- Methodology
- Keywords