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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B4-2026-111-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Deep Learning-Based Underwater Mapping of Posidonia Oceanica from Satellite Data for Coastal Habitat Monitoring</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chiabrando</surname>
<given-names>Filiberto</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4982-5236</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gallitto</surname>
<given-names>Francesca</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yari</surname>
<given-names>Payam</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lingua</surname>
<given-names>Andrea Maria</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5930-2711</ext-link>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Manca</surname>
<given-names>Stefania</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Matrone</surname>
<given-names>Francesca</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>DAD, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>04</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B4-2026</volume>
<fpage>111</fpage>
<lpage>118</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Filiberto Chiabrando et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>The POSEIDON project aims to develop scalable and repeatable approaches for monitoring Posidonia Oceanica (PO) meadows, a key Mediterranean habitat that supports coastal ecosystem services and long-term blue-carbon storage, yet they are increasingly threatened by warming waters and cumulative human pressures. This work presents a satellite-based workflow for benthic habitat mapping that combines Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery, ancillary bathymetry, and deep-learning semantic segmentation. Sentinel-2 Level-2A data and bathymetry were integrated into multi-band inputs on a common 10 m grid, with analysis restricted to water pixels. A wall-to-wall reference map was generated by harmonising existing habitat products into six benthic classes for supervised model training and evaluation. U-Net and DeepLabv3 architectures with a ResNet backbone were tested for a representative September 2015 scene. The workflow was first assessed in the Culuccia peninsula, where it achieved an overall accuracy of 0.830 and a Kappa coefficient of 0.786. It was then successfully transferred to the Capo Testa - Punta Falcone Marine Protected Area (MPA), where the best-performing configuration reached an overall accuracy of 0.882 and a Kappa coefficient of 0.843. These results show that open-access satellite data combined with robust semantic segmentation models can provide a reliable and non-destructive framework for seagrass mapping in complex coastal environments.</p>
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