Research Director

Teruhisa Komatsu

Department of Commrce, Yokohama College of Commerce
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Outline

Marine macrophyte beds provide various ecosystem services such as food supply, nutrient recycling, etc. It is necessary to appropriately manage marine macrophyte beds not to decrease them. Thus, it is desired to develop mapping systems that can measure species of marine macrophytes, their distribution and biomasses. This study aims to develop two mapping systems: one is to detect marine macrophytes by an optical sensor using hyperspectral images built on the small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), capable of amphibious take-off/landing. The other is to detect them by acoustic sensors using narrow multi-beam ultrasounds on the small unmanned marine vehicle (UMV).