Author Date

2025-03-06

Degree Name

BS

Department

Plant and Wildlife Sciences

College

Life Sciences

Defense Date

2025-03-06

Publication Date

2025-03-13

First Faculty Advisor

Dr. Richard Gill

First Faculty Reader

Dr. Blaine Griffen

Honors Coordinator

Dr. David Jarvis

Keywords

Fish Surveying, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), Hawaiian Coral Reefs

Abstract

Since AUVs maintain heightened levels of identification, advanced system complexity coverage, low taxonomic selectivity, while maintaining large sample sizes and exceptional navigational accuracies, AUVs could be beneficial in certain circumstances. However, since UVC’s tend to have higher biomass identification accuracies and AUVs lack of agility and reactivity increase unidentifiable fish (While increasing biomass coverage), its costs may not justify the means. However, with advances in camera and drone technologies, it may be possible to heighten the identification abilities of AUVs, thus offering a low-interruption solution to fish surveying

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