Fish kills are sudden mass mortalities that occur in freshwater and marine systems worldwide. Fish kill surveys are essential for assessing the ecological and economic impacts of fish kill events, but are often labor-intensive, time-consuming, and spatially limited. This study aims to address these challenges by exploring the application of unoccupied aerial systems (or drones) and deep learning techniques for coastal fish carcass detection. Seven flights were conducted using a DJI Phantom 4 RGB quadcopter to monitor three sites with different substrates (i.e., sand, rock, shored Sargassum). Orthomosaics generated from drone imagery were useful for detecting carcasses washed ashore, but not floating or submerged carcasses. Single shot multibox detection (SSD) with a ResNet50-based model demonstrated high detection accuracy, with a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.77 and a mean average recall (mAR) of 0.81. The model had slightly higher average precision (AP) when detecting large objects (>42.24 cm long, AP = 0.90) compared to small objects (≤14.08 cm long, AP = 0.77) because smaller objects are harder to recognize and require more contextual reasoning. The results suggest a strong potential future application of these tools for rapid fish kill response and automatic enumeration and characterization of fish carcasses.


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    Titel :

    Drones and Deep Learning for Detecting Fish Carcasses During Fish Kills


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2025




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


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    Unbekannt




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