Development of a Semi-automated Coral Bleaching Classifier in CoralNet: A Summary of Standard Operating Procedures and Report of Results
October 31, 2022
Steps and skills that can be utilized to produce the good image quality that is essential for annotating imagery in CoralNet.
In this report, we provide a description of how to create a coral bleaching classifier in CoralNet
using photoquadrat imagery. We also include a summary of accuracy of NOAA ESD’s classifier
at both the point and site level. The trained bleaching classifier is publically available (Global ID
24223) and can be accessed using the CoralNet Application Program Interface (API). See the
API blog (https://coralnet.ucsd.edu/pages/help/api/) for details.
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Ehrenberg J, Winston M, Oliver T, Couch C. 2022. Development of a Semi-automated Coral Bleaching Classifier in CoralNet: A Summary of Standard Operating Procedures and Report of Results. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-133, 11 p. https://doi.org/10.25923/d0re-9y93.