Artificial Reefs & Blue Carbon
Our seafloor intelligence supports project developers, NGOs, investors, and public authorities working on nature-based solutions such as artificial reefs, seagrass restoration, and coral replanting by providing transparent, science-based data on marine ecosystem health and restoration performance. These insights support biodiversity recovery, blue carbon valuation, and evidence-based resilience planning for coastal infrastructure, real estate, and insurance.
Ecosystem intelligence with improved time-to-data
By fusing RGB and hyperspectral imaging, we deliver geo-referenced data products that can track ecosystem health and restoration performance over time. Our automated processing reduces time-to-data from weeks or months to days or hours, enabling end users to act swiftly. This supports adaptive management, performance verification, and investment decisions for biodiversity recovery, blue carbon crediting, and resilience planning in the presence of pressures such as dredging-related activity, anchoring, eutrophication, as well as disease outbreaks or bleaching events.
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PlanBlue’s subsea mapping capabilities can support a range of nature-based solution use cases, including:
Site Screening & Optimal Location Selection
Coastal ecosystems can vary dramatically over short distances. A single survey can identify degraded areas suitable for intervention, helping avoid impacts on healthier habitats and improving project outcomes. For projects that must pass through sensitive areas (e.g., cabling corridors), the same datasets can highlight opportunities to offset impacts through targeted restoration elsewhere.
Transparency & Credibility for Stakeholders
Standardized, visually rich outputs increase transparency and credibility with regulators, funders, and local communities. Digitally traceable, geo-referenced records make it easier to demonstrate progress, report outcomes, and build confidence in project claims and long-term stewardship.
Fast Time-to-Data for Adaptive Management
Automation and AI-driven annotation libraries minimize manual effort in the field and during analysis, enabling rapid turnaround when intervention is needed. This supports timely responses to emerging stressors and keeps restoration programs on track, without waiting weeks or months for results.
Blue Carbon & Biodiversity Performance Metrics
Our data products support credible estimation of carbon capture and long-term storage, alongside biodiversity and habitat metrics such as key species, reef builders, and indicators of invasive or endangered species. For seagrass meadows, this includes measuring biomass, carbon stock, ecosystem health, and biodiversity to support performance tracking and reporting.
Geo-Referenced Progress Monitoring & Time-Series Change Detection
All outputs are geo-referenced, enabling precise revisits and consistent time-series monitoring of biomass, biodiversity, habitat development, and carbon-related indicators. Color-coded visualizations make recovery trajectories easy to interpret and communicate, thereby supporting adaptive management and clear storytelling of ecological impact.
Identifying Root Causes & Driving Nature-Positive Outcomes
The seafloor reflects broader ecosystem stressors, not just direct project footprints. By re-analyzing collected data, underlying drivers of degradation, such as nutrient pollution (eutrophication), overuse, or chronic disturbance, can be identified, enabling more targeted restoration actions and improving the likelihood of long-term success.
Fully-automated seafloor intelligence for smarter maritime surveys.
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