Closed Area I Western Great South Channel Closed Area II (HAPC) Elephant Trunk Nantucket Lightship
HabCam is a habitat mapping camera system
HabCam Field Operations: To view images and data, click on a transect below
Closed Area I Western Great South Channel Closed Area II (HAPC) Elephant Trunk Nantucket Lightship

 

Image Test Sets

1: Nantucket Light Ship


2: Closed Area II (HAPC)


3: Closed Area I


4: Elephant Trunk


5: W. Great South Channel

 

Image Mosaics

 

 


 

What does HabCam see at the bottom of the ocean? Take a look and see for yourself.

Go to the HabCam Gallery. or the Organisms of Interest

scallops - Western Great South Channel spiny dogfish - Nantucket Lightship scallops and sponge - Western Great South Channel winter or little skate - Habitat Area of Particular Concern scallops - Habitat Area of Particular Concern scallops and sunstar(Crossaster) - Habitat Area of Particular Concern barndoor skate - HAPC

 

List of all fish taxa


 

Project Goals:

1. To develop a flexible software package to allow target segmentation and habitat classification from bottom imagery and make this software available to scientists throughout NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service).

2. To provide algorithms for field calibration of image area to allow for direct density estimates of scallops and other epibenthic organisms.

3. To develop an Image Test Set process of high resolution digital images collected from the HabCam mapping sled of a variety of bottom types in multiple areas in the Gulf of Maine, Great South Channel, Georges Bank and Mid Atlantic. The Test Set is used for parallel development of image processing software by multiple methods.

4. To develop an on-line, image based data retrieval system to visualize large data sets associated with optical imaging of benthic habitats.

continue on to project outline for more

STEP 1: Acquire Images

STEP 2: Store and process images

STEP 3: Visualize the data

 

 


Installation of our new optical calibration facility

 


 

Downloads

Download the most current HabCam presentation about our NEBO project:

NEBO Powerpoint - 1/23/08

HabCam Poster (PDF) - presented at OBIS 2007

HabCam Image Poster (PDF) - presented at OBIS 2007

Oceans_HabCam Manuscript (PDF)

Contacts