Monitoring Acropora spp. with landscape mosaics

Pacific Reef, FL: Zoomify, Zoomify with links to component images.

Sunny Isles, FL:

Horseshoe Reef, FL:

Anniversary Reef, FL: Example of A. cervicornis growth around the scar of the Evening Star grounding site. Mosaic from 2005 (DV video camera) and mosaic from 2012 (GoPro HDV video camera)

A. cervicornis nursery: Baseline mosiac of Diego Lirman's A. cervicornis nursery.


Test of multi-gopro system Test near Grecian Rocks but not at a permanent site. Version with 3 gopro cameras separated by 50 cm on a pole, rendered at about 1.5 mm / pixel. Total acquisition time for the gopros was 5:45. Compare that result with the version from a Nikon D7000 with 24 mm lens rendered at about 3mm per pixel. Total acquisition time for the Nikon version was 22 min.


Monitoring sites in Keys Test at Dana Williams' Molasses Reef site MR-3. This is the original site we went to see in 2005 and 2006 and then revistited in 2012 (JPG), 2014 (JPG), and 2017 (JPG).

Below is a preview of comparison among the 2005, 2006, 2012: Click through for 2005, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2017 side-by-side.


Dana's FL Keys sites from 2012; original verions processed in 2012

Monitoring sites in Keys Test at Dana Williams' Grecian Rocks site GR-2. This version done with a Nikon D7000 and 24 mm lens, rendered at 1mm / pixel. PNG and JPG versions also available.

Monitoring sites in Keys Test at Dana Williams' Elbow Reef sites EL-4 and EL-5. This version done with a Nikon D7000 and 24 mm lens, rendered at 2mm / pixel.

Monitoring sites in Keys Test at Dana Williams' Watson's Reef site (not sure of site number). This version done with GoPro Hero2 HD movie mode.


Dana's FL Keys sites from 2012; data reprocessed in 2016

GR-1 Test at Dana Williams' Grecian Rocks site zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg. This version done with a single gopro because the waves were too large to swim the slr rig at this shallow site.

EL-1 Test at Dana Williams' Elbow site zoomify | with links to component frames | with links to high-res stills | jpg.

EL-2 Test at Dana Williams' Elbow site zoomify | with links to component frames | with links to high-res stills | jpg.

FR-1 Test at Dana Williams' French reef site zoomify | with links to component frames | with links to high-res stills | jpg.

FR-3 Test at Dana Williams' French reef site zoomify | with links to component frames | with links to high-res stills | jpg.


Dana's FL Keys sites from 2014. These were all done with multi-gopro on a pole.

GR-2 Test at Dana Williams' Grecian Rocks site zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

MR-3 Test at Dana Williams' Molasses Rocks 3 (the famous site with calving, shown above) zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

FR-1 Test at Dana Williams' French reef site zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.


Dana's FL Keys sites from 10/17/2017.

MR-3 Dana Williams' Molasses Rocks 3 (the famous site with calving, shown above) Done with 24mm Nikon. zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

Sand Island Dana Williams' Sand Island (multi camera go pro stills) zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

EL-4 and EL-5 Elbow Reef monitoring sites 4 and 5 zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

EL-2 Elbow Reef monitoring site 2 zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

EL-1 Elbow Reef monitoring site 1 zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

GR-2 Grecian Rocks site 2 zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.

FR-1 French Reef site 1 zoomify | with links to component frames | jpg.