About the Project

In response to users' needs for rapid, standardized and quantitative measures to assess reef condition, this project evaluated uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) as a tool for measuring reef changes within five National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs) from North Carolina to Florida. The imagery analysis workflows developed in partnership with oyster resource managers provide quantitative measures of reef structural and demographic metrics and, importantly, changes to those metrics in response to natural and anthropogenic factors.

About this Resource

Project team member Gary Sundin gives a short introduction to "Collaborative Development Of Novel Remote Sensing Workflows For Assessing Oyster Reef Structural And Demographic Characteristics To Inform Management And Restoration," a collaborative research project funded in 2022 by the NERRS Science Collaborative.