GBR Coral Reef Monitoring Site Planner tool - overview
Channel: eAtlas AIMS
Date: 26/11/2018

The Monitoring Site Planner (MSP) is a tool to assist in the redesign of the coral reef monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef as part of the Reef Integrated Monitoring and Reporting program (RIMReP) . 

Choosing a survey design is tricky as there are multiple competing criteria. This tool allows multi-criteria (ocean currents, water quality data such as secchi depth, seasonal temperature, fish zoning and historic data) to be traded off against each other in order to choose a monitoring program that is efficient.

This video provides a detailed introduction to each part of the tool. 

You can access the Monitoring Site Planner and the results of the optimisation runs at: http://eatlas.org.au/tools/msp