I'm pleased to announce our new paper on quantifying seagrass habitats with UAVs is now out. We look at quantifying seagrass beds beyond presence/absence or categorial classification. #drones #seagrass https://t.co/c4JmvqvWQs

You can access a super cool interactive map of the #TurneffeAtoll #seagrass beds here, including modelled % canopy cover: https://t.co/wlw6T4WcB6;

Next, @Satellite_stev builds upon this, using UAV maps to ground truth #sentinel2 satellite data 🛰️. This method produced ~ 30x more training data than traditional methods without substantial loss of accuracy (R2 = 0.73 over ~250 km2):

Thrilled that our #BlueCarbon🌱research programme in #Belize has produced its first two papers!🙌 Published in @RemoteSens_MDPI, they cover the #remotesensing aspects of our #seagrass work, presenting new methods via drone (led by @Oceanic_Dave) & satellite (@Satellite_stev).

As part of the EO4SD project, NOC satellite team has modified one of the leading shoreline monitoring tools CoastSat. CoastSat_nocs is now live! Assess shoreline change in your area using the newly accessible code via GitHub https://t.co/xmg2gjGFpA @NOCnews @EO4SD_LAB

Masks aren’t just good for COVID-19 safety! They really ‘mask’ the smell of these core samples containing decomposing sargassum for the study of its contribution to #BlueCarbon in #Antigua @NOCnews look forward to their arrival! @CME_Prog @isobelyeo

The coring team led by Dr Claire Evans from @NOCnews drying the core samples from #Antigua seagrass beds for #BlueCarbon assessment as part of the @CME_Prog #ECRs #Fieldwork ⁦@Satellite_stev⁩ #Analytical_Services_Antigua

@Satellite_stev collecting seagrass samples for the @NOCnews @CME_Prog #BlueCarbon in #Antigua project. So much essential work on this project has been done by #ECRs and they’ve helped to make the coring program a huge success! We’re very excited for the lab work now! #Fieldwork

The @CME_Prog #BlueCarbon in #Antigua coring team scoping out some #seagrass sampling sites for later in the week. #fieldwork

All the #Antigua #BlueCarbon @CME_prog equipment has arrived ready for mobilisation tomorrow! Some very happy @NOCnews scientists with their instruments.

The @NOCnews CME Blue Carbon in Antigua team are heading out for fieldwork today. Very excited to start work on this incredible project with fantastic colleagues. #CME #Fieldwork #BlueCarbon

Session 5 of the @nocnews CMEP Virtual Workshop series is in full swing! Today is a follow on from Friday's session: Marine Survey Tools P2 - How do you map the shallow water environments in the coastal zone? Hosted by Dr Tim Le Bas & Stephen Carpenter

Some interesting applications advances in Earth Observation @ RSPSoc2019. AI and deep learning are the future. Thank you for having me @SatAppsCatapult

Kicking off another day with our #cmebelize #BlueCarbon research session. James Hunt @nocnews, @Oceanic_Dave and @Satellite_stev @UoS_OES, and Eliceo Cobb of the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association outline the progress we’ve made this year:

On #WorldWetlandsDay, a shoutout to the amazing, hardworking #CMEBelize #mangrove #seagrass #bluecarbon squad. Here they are 2wks ago about to set off for #TurneffeAtoll. >100 #sedimentcores, 6 #dronesurveys and a week of #labwork later, everyone looks a little more tired! 💤

As our @NOCnews @CME_Prog #CMEBelize #seagrass #bluecarbon team say a reluctant farewell to our hosts #TASA on #TurneffeAtoll, @hanbrittain, @Satellite_stev and team move to the @CZMAI_Belize lab in #BelizeCity to dry close to 1000 samples ready for analysis back in the UK.

As part of ongoing @CME_Prog #fieldwork in #Belize, @UoSoceans masters student @Satellite_stev is getting his first taste of fieldwork, linking reflectiveness and waterdepth measurements to satellite data for #seagrass mapping (1/2)

The @NOCnews @CME_Prog #CMEBelize team are linking #sedimentcores, #quadrat surveys, #drone footage and #satellitedata to quantify #seagrass #bluecarbon on #TurneffeAtoll. Here’s @Oceanic_Dave explaining how the #drones he flies fit into the study:

Whilst @Oceanic_Dave and his #drones map #seagrass extent from above, the rest of the @NOCnews @CME_Prog #CMEBelize team are in the water gathering data the old fashioned way! @hanbrittain explains:

All hands on deck this morning as the #CMEBelize #seagrass #bluecarbon team are busily processing yesterday’s long cores and biomass samples. This afternoon, we’re heading back out for another #drone and #quadrat survey with local hosts TASA. @CME_Prog @NOCnews