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The project is also gearing up for a summer 2021 follow-up training workshop and presentation of preliminary outputs. Focusing on the major marine habitat types of Belize’s territorial sea, over a hundred individual supervised image classifications based on 10m Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (Figure 2) have been generated. The next phase of this study will include validation of the project outputs via formal accuracy assessment, and expert evaluation. Related to the policy relevance of GEO BON and its goals, the Coastal Zone Management Authority & Institute – the project’s implementing agency – is also evaluating how to integrate the data into the revision of Belize’s Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan (2016). |
![]() ![]() Figure 1. Left: High resolution drone imagery of a coral patch. Right: CZMAI team at the field sites, collecting underwater photography and videos of the corals. |
![]() Figure 2. Results of the supervised classification of the Sentinel-2 data with 6 spectral classes (algae-, bare substrate-, seagrass- and coral-dominated habitats, turbid water, and deep water). |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Belize National Marine Habitat Map (NMHM)