@INPROCEEDINGS{8867074,
  author={K. {Lima} and J. {Pinto} and V. {Ferreira} and B. {Ferreira} and A. {Diegues} and M. {Ribeiro} and J. B. {de Sousa}},
  booktitle={OCEANS 2019 - Marseille}, 
  title={Comprehensive Habitat Mapping of a Littoral Marine Park}, 
  year={2019},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-6},
  abstract={Marine Protected Areas classification can help in the protection and monitoring of important ecosystems that might be sheltered by their habitats.New instrumentation techniques are being applied to study this type of environments, performing various scientific surveys in the water. In this paper we introduce a practical approach for habitat mapping, from the surface through the seabed, using autonomous underwater and unmanned aerial vehicles. We address high-resolution characterization of extensive coastal areas in challenging conditions by deploying multiple vehicles simultaneously. This approach has been applied in the field, to map a large coastal area, contouring the area intrinsic challenges by using a robust software toolchain developed to operate these vehicles, from planning and execution to the data analysis stages.},
  keywords={autonomous aerial vehicles;autonomous underwater vehicles;data analysis;ecology;mobile robots;comprehensive habitat mapping;littoral marine park;important ecosystems;habitat mapping;new instrumentation techniques;scientific surveys;autonomous underwater vehicles;unmanned aerial vehicles;high-resolution characterization;extensive coastal areas;multiple vehicles;area intrinsic challenges;marine protected areas classification;robust software toolchain;Biodiversity;Sea measurements;Unmanned aerial vehicles;Software;Planning;Monitoring;Europe;Habitat Mapping;Coastal Zone Management;AUV},
  doi={10.1109/OCEANSE.2019.8867074},
  ISSN={},
  month={June},}