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2 stories filed under workflow on World Data Ocean. The newest of them: “Mapping the Seafloor: Detecting Ghost Nets with Side-Scan Sonar” and “Tracking Plankton Change: Open Data Workflow for Ocean Health Insights”. A single sonar ping can reveal a tangled net resting on the seafloor, but telling it apart from a rock or a reef is where the real work begins. Plankton imaging captures the ocean's smallest movers at scales that nets and bottles miss, yet the path from raw image to usable dataset has remained stubbornly manual. A Global Hub for Ocean Intelligence 4 World Data Ocean is a centralized digital platform where researchers, scientists, and ocean enthusiasts converge to… The list below is every workflow story on World Data Ocean, newest first.
Mapping the Seafloor: Detecting Ghost Nets with Side-Scan Sonar
A single sonar ping can reveal a tangled net resting on the seafloor, but telling it apart from a rock or a reef is where the real work begins. Oceanographers still guide much of the detection process manually, interpreting acoustic returns frame by frame. Ghost nets are difficult to classify because their shape and density vary with depth, current, and decay. Side-scan sonar offers a clear image, yet the final call often rests on human judgment.
Tracking Plankton Change: Open Data Workflow for Ocean Health Insights
Plankton imaging captures the ocean's smallest movers at scales that nets and bottles miss, yet the path from raw image to usable dataset has remained stubbornly manual. The Plankton Imager 10 aboard the R/V Simon Stevin changes that calculus in the southern North Sea. This open pipeline, built on deep learning classification and Darwin-Core Archives, turns high-frequency observations into validated, standards-based outputs. It is a practical step toward operational ocean intelligence, one we can adapt beyond the Belgian part of the North Sea.