Manually mapping and characterising the morphology of cold-water coral mounds is very time-consuming. This is why we developed the CoMMa Toolbox. This ArcPro toolbox allows you to semi-automatically map and characterise cold-water coral mounds quickly, consistently and robustly. This tool is open access and the outputs can be used to understand and predict what drives the distribution of cold-water corals and their associated species. It also allows you understand mound formation at current and geological time scales.
PUBLICATIONS
Arosio, R., Gafeira, J., De Clippele, L. H., Wheeler, A. J., Huvenne, V. A., Sacchetti, F., Conti, L.A. & Lim, A. (2024). CoMMa: A GIS geomorphometry toolbox to map and measure confined landforms. Geomorphology, 458, 109227.
De Clippele, L.H., Gafeira, J., Robert, K., Hennige, S., Lavaleye, M.S., Duineveld, G.C.A., Huvenne, V.A. and Roberts, J.M., 2017. Using novel acoustic and visual mapping tools to predict the small-scale spatial distribution of live biogenic reef framework in cold-water coral habitats. Coral Reefs, 36, pp.255-268.
Laurence De Clippele's Research Group 