GeoAI for Marine Ecosystem Monitoring: a Complete Workflow to Generate Maps from AI Model Predictions

Type Article
Date 2023-06-22
Language English
Author(s) Talpaert Daudon Justine1, Contini MatteoORCID2, Urbina-Barreto Isabel3, Elliott Brianna4, Guilhaumon François3, Joly Alexis5, Bonhommeau SylvainORCID2, Barde Julien6
Affiliation(s) 1 : UMR Marbec, IRD, La Reunion, France
2 : Ifremer DOI, La Reunion, France
3 : UMR Entropie (Future Maore Reefs), IRD, La Reunion, France
4 : Duke University, Duke Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC, USA
5 : INRIA Zenith, Montpellier, France
6 : UMR Marbec, IRD, France
Meeting The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLVIII-4/W7-2023 FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2023 – Academic Track, 26 June–2 July 2023, Prizren, Kosovo
Source The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2194-9034) (Copernicus GmbH), 2023-06-22 , Vol. XLVIII-4/W7-2023 , P. 223-230
DOI 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W7-2023-223-2023
Keyword(s) GeoAI, computer vision, deep learning, marine ecology, object detection, segmentation, geospatial, photogrammetry
Abstract

Mapping and monitoring marine ecosystems imply several challenges for data collection and processing: water depth, restricted access to locations, instrumentation costs or weather constraints for sampling, among others. Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Geographic Information System (GIS) open source software can be combined in new kinds of workflows, to annotate and predict objects directly on georeferenced raster data (e.g. orthomosaics). Here, we describe and share the code of a generic method to train a deep learning model with spatial annotations and use it to directly generate model predictions as spatial features. This workflow has been tested and validated in three use cases related to marine ecosystem monitoring at different geographic scales: (i) segmentation of corals on orthomosaics made of underwater images to automate coral reef habitats mapping, (ii) detection and classification of fishing vessels on remote sensing satellite imagery to estimate a proxy of fishing effort (iii) segmentation of marine species and habitats on underwater images with a simple geolocation. Models have been successfully trained and the models predictions are displayed with maps in the three use cases.

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Talpaert Daudon Justine, Contini Matteo, Urbina-Barreto Isabel, Elliott Brianna, Guilhaumon François, Joly Alexis, Bonhommeau Sylvain, Barde Julien (2023). GeoAI for Marine Ecosystem Monitoring: a Complete Workflow to Generate Maps from AI Model Predictions. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W7-2023, 223-230. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W7-2023-223-2023 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00844/95549/