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Corals have long played an important role in the environment with reefs hosting over four thousand species of marine animals all over the world. However, coral are very delicate in that slight unfavorable changes in environmental conditions cause them harm. With extreme changes in the environment happening ever more frequently, there is a need to efficiently monitor these corals for environmental efforts to keep pace. Manual monitoring of corals is expensive, tedious, and time-consuming. In this paper, an information system called the Coral Mapping and Health Assessment System (CMHAS) is proposed. The system aims to provide a digital repository of information that includes videos and images of corals, which are analyzed using image processing algorithms based on texture features to assess the health status of corals reefs. Evaluation on more than a hundred coral images show promising results with recognition rates as high as 82%.
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Naval, P.C., Soriano, M., Esmero, B.C., Abad, Z.M. (2014). A Coral Mapping and Health Assessment System Based on Texture Analysis. In: Nguyen, N.T., Attachoo, B., Trawiński, B., Somboonviwat, K. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05476-6_61
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