Shaded value = in the CV mean (shade deepens with cover) Gray italic = shown for comparison but left out of the CV mean: the gold standard (the reference value) and the manually annotated in CoralNet CoralNet benchmark annotations (reference values, not models), Coralscapes (not trusted), and any value that reuses the reference's own data n = frames behind the value — = not run or not applicable (see each region's notes) Site names and method names link out (new tab)

Coral Cover: Flower Garden Banks 2019

1 site · 148 photos

Agency survey column = NOAA FGBNMS 2024 East Flower Garden Bank study-site transects, the site headline. Claude and CoralSCOP ran on the author's June 2019 photos (comparison only).

SiteDateHeadline (site page)ClaudeAgency survey (headline)CoralSCOP
East Flower Garden Bank, Buoy 32019-06-03–0450%transect51d,en=14850an=1658b,cn=148
Notes for Flower Garden Banks 2019 (9)
  • [a] NOAA FGBNMS long-term monitoring, EFGB study-site random photo transects (CPCe, 500 points), 16 July 2024, NCEI 0308032: the site headline. n = transects.
  • [b] CoralSCOP = per-frame sum of colony-mask area fractions (zero-filled; overlapping masks double-count), averaged over frames with an ok row. Area index, not a point count: denominator differs from any point-count reference. It is also unstable frame to frame (the same subject has scored 94.1% in one photo and 23.3% in another), and the mask sum overstates cover most on the healthiest reefs.
  • [c] CoralSCOP here = the site page's frame-matched row: run on exactly the photos behind the Claude cell (per-frame values joined by file; capped at 100% per photo; zero-filled). Comparison only.
  • [d] Claude = blind 7-call point count on the EDITED photos (20 points per photo, (HC+BL)/(20 − WATER − FISH − OBST), unknown points kept in the denominator); value = the site's headline where Claude is the headline.
  • [e] Comparison only at a survey site: the author's June 2019 photos; the NOAA FGBNMS 2024 transect value is the headline.
  • Mean/Range: Mean ± SD and Range are over the CV cells that enter the mean (CoralNet where independent, DINOv3, CoralSCOP unedited/edited, Claude). Gold standard, frames manually annotated in CoralNet, Coralscapes and same-measurement cells are shown in gray italic but never averaged.
  • Headline (site page): the coral-cover figure the site's page, report card and map pop-up print, with its method; it is never averaged into the CV mean.
  • Methods: Claude (Anthropic); DINOv3 (Meta; paper; used here as the frozen backbone of the in-house classifier); Coralscapes v1 and v2 (EPFL-ECEO; dataset paper, code); CoralSCOP (Zheng et al., CVPR 2024); CoralNet.
  • Sites: names drop the region prefix (hover for the full name) and link to the site's CRD page, or to the regional summary page where the site has none. Date = survey date from the map pins (first–last visit); sites are listed earliest first, undated sites last.

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