The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is assumed to be a tectonically stable area, but recent studies show that neotectonic activity could have affected the geomorphology and evolution of the coral reefs. We used bathymetry, free-air gravity and 2D seismic data to test the hypothesis that neotectonic (i.e. geologically recent or currently active) faults have affected the morphology and major aspects of reefs’ growth in the northernmost...

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) consist of various hyper-parameters which need to be specified or can be altered when defining a deep learning architecture. There are numerous studies which have tested different types of networks (e.g. U-Net, DeepLabv3+) or created new architectures, benchmarked against well-known test datasets. However, there is a lack of real-world mapping applications demonstrating the effects of changi...

Tidal flats are a globally distributed coastal ecosystem important for supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Local to continental‐scale studies have documented rapid loss of tidal habitat driven by human impacts, but assessments of progress in their conservation are lacking. With an internally consistent estimate of distribution and change, based on Landsat satellite imagery, now available for the world's tidal flats...

Our ability to completely and repeatedly map natural environments at a global scale have increased significantly over the past decade. These advances are from delivery of a range of on-line global satellite image archives and global-scale processing capabilities, along with improved spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery. The ability to accurately train and validate these global scale-mapping programs from what we w...