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Using this workflow, eCognition successfully classified the shallow water benthic habitats of the entire Caribbean Basin in four months—an area about the size of Texas and California combined. The software exported each classified area as vector shapefiles and Schill and his team downloaded them for analysis and quality control. With each classification, Schill's team has been assessing the data to map the benthic habitats. Moving from reef to reef, they've been using field data to methodically analyze the accuracy of the classifications, and making manual corrections where needed. To date, benthic habitat maps have been produced for 23 countries and territories across the insular Caribbean and are being reviewed for accuracy and quality control. In October 2020, the final full set of benthic habitat maps for the insular Caribbean will be viewable and downloadable online (https:// caribbeanscienceatlas.tnc.org/). The maps will also be available on the Allen Coral Atlas' online atlas (https:// allencoralatlas.org/). "Combining eCognition with Dove imagery has made mapping at this scale possible," said Schill. "We've never before been able to map such large areas at such detail. With these high resolution coral reef maps, resource managers can better understand the benefits these habitats provide to people and develop strategic conservation actions." TRANSFORMING THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS Contact your local Trimble Authorized Distribution Partner for more information NORTH AMERICA Trimble Inc. 10368 Westmoor Drive Westminster CO 80021 USA EUROPE Trimble Germany GmbH Am Prime Parc 11 65479 Raunheim GERMANY +49-6142-2100-0 Phone +49-6142-2100-140 Fax ASIA-PACIFIC Trimble Navigation Singapore PTE Limited 3 HarbourFront Place #13-02 HarbourFront Tower Two Singapore 099254 SINGAPORE +65-6871-5878 Phone +65-6871-5879 Fax "With eCognition, we can create new, accurate baseline maps that fulfill an urgent need for coral reef monitoring, modeling and marine zoning. It's a new era for marine mapping." — Dr. Steve Schill, Lead Scientist and Marine Conservation Specialist, The Nature Conservancy © 2020, Trimble Inc. All rights reserved. Trimble, the Globe & Triangle logo and eCognition are trademarks of Trimble Inc., registered in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. PN 022516-537 (10/20) An Elkhorn coral colony just off Isla Catalina in the Dominican Republic. This coral is typically found in shallow areas with high wave energy. An orthophoto mosaic of Boulder Star Coral near Isla Catalina in the Dominican Republic.

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