Recommended Operating Guidelines
A series of Recommended Operating Guidelines (ROGs) were produced by the MESH and MESH Atlantic projects to standardise the use of survey equipment for users to obtain the best quality data for habitat mapping. They were created following a comprehensive Review of Standards and Protocols for Seabed Habitat Mapping (Coggan, 2007).
The ROGs cover:
- Guidelines for mapping intertidal, shallow subtidal and deep subtidal habitats by remote and on-site surveys
- Standards and protocols for the use and ground-truthing of acoustic techniques and remote sensing imagery
| Recommended Operating Guideline Title | Type |
| 3D seismic derived seabed imagery | |
| Aerial photography | |
| Acoustic ground discrimination systems (AGDS) | |
| Airborne digital imagery | |
| Box Coring | |
| High resolution satellite imagery | |
| LiDAR surveys | |
| Sediment profile imagery (SPI) | |
| Sidescan | |
| Single beam echosounder surveying | |
| Sub Bottom Profiler (Chirp) | |
| Swath Bathymetry | |
| Trawls & Dredges | |
| Underwater video & photographic imaging techniques |
