Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.

An underwater tracking system for mapping marine communities: an application to Posidonia oceanica

TitoloAn underwater tracking system for mapping marine communities: an application to Posidonia oceanica
Tipo di pubblicazioneArticolo su Rivista peer-reviewed
Anno di Pubblicazione2002
AutoriSgorbini, S, Peirano Andrea, Cocito Silvia, and Morgigni M
RivistaOCEANOLOGICA ACTA
Volume25
PaginazionePII S0399-1784(02)01188-X
ISSN03991784
Parole chiaveMapping, Mediterranean Sea, Posidonia oceanica, seagass
Abstract

The GPS intelligent buoy is a pot-table underwater tracking system consisting of four buoys and one pinger. The pinger was mounted on an underwater vehicle driven by a Scuba diver and used to map the limits of a Posidonia oceanica meadow. To test the accuracy of the method the system was tried out on different types of limits and on healthy and regressed part of the meadow from 2 to 25 m of depth. The time of track acquisition (1 point per second), the recording speed (1 km h(-1)) and the mapping scale (more than 1:500) indicated that the proposed method may be successfully integrated with conventional systems for mapping marine communities. (C) 2002 Ifremer/CNRS/IRD/Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

DOI10.1016/S0399-1784(02)01188-X
Citation Key ISI:000178704100003