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Attribution

Development and Support

Habitat-Mapper was developed by the Hakai Institute, a marine research organization based in British Columbia, Canada. The Hakai Institute led the development of this software package and contributed the majority of machine learning training data used to build the kelp detection and mussel and gooseneck barnacle detection models.

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Training Data Contributors

The Nature Conservancy of California

The Nature Conservancy of California generously provided drone-based kelp imagery that was used to help train the kelp detection models. This high-resolution aerial data was instrumental in improving model accuracy and robustness.

Dr. Katherine Cavanaugh

Dr. Cavanaugh contributed valuable model development experience as well as expert annotations of Planet Labs satellite imagery that were used to help train the kelp-ps8b model. These expert annotations helped enable kelp detection capabilities for PlanetScope 8-band imagery.

Citation

If you use Habitat-Mapper in your research, please cite the software:

Denouden, T., & Reshitnyk, L. Habitat-Mapper [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17203205
@software{Denouden_Habitat-Mapper,
author = {Denouden, Taylor and Reshitnyk, Luba},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17203205},
title = {{Habitat-Mapper}},
url = {https://github.com/HakaiInstitute/habitat-mapper}
}

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to all contributors who have helped improve Habitat-Mapper through code contributions, bug reports, and feedback.