Credits

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the Stuart Sandin Lab of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD) for supporting us with their excellent data and the ongoing collaboration in testing TagLab functionalities. Thanks, Nicole, Clint and Stuart!

We acknowledge the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (Santa Barbara, US), the Marine Science Institute (Santa Barbara, US) and the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ETH, Zurich) to provide us with their data from the Moorea Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) project.

We gratefully acknowledge the NVIDIA AI Technology Center, EMEA, for its support and access to compute resources.

A special thanks to prof. David Kriegman (Computer Science & Engineering Department, UCSD), for his support and inspiration in the early stage of the project.

Video credits

100 Island Challenge

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

Visualization software developed by:

Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering

Moorea data

"This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE 16-37396 (and earlier awards) as well as a generous gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Research was completed under permits issued by the French Polynesian Government (Délégation à la Recherche) and the Haut-commissariat de la République en Polynésie Francaise (DTRT) (Protocole d'Accueil 2005-2021). This work represents a contribution of the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER Site.”

It receives fund also from the Moorea Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) Consortium.

Gaia Pavoni ⁽¹⁾, Massimiliano Corsini ⁽¹⁾, Kai Kopecky ⁽³⁾, Andrew J. Brooks ⁽⁴⁾, Sally J. Holbrook ⁽³⁾, Russell J. Schmitt ⁽³⁾, Erica Nocerino ⁽⁵⁾, Armin Gruen ⁽⁵⁾, Fabio Menna ⁽⁶⁾, Francesco Mancini ⁽²⁾, Cristina Castagnetti ⁽²⁾, Paolo Rossi ⁽²⁾, Alessandro Capra ⁽²⁾, Matthias Troyer ⁽⁵⁾, Paolo Cignoni ⁽¹⁾

(1) Visual Computing Lab, ISTI-CNR (Pisa, Italy)

(2) University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Modena, Italy)

(3) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (Santa Barbara, US)

(4) Marine Science Institute (Santa Barbara, US)

(5) Institute of Theoretical Physics (ETH, Zurich) / Microsoft Corp. (US)

(6) 3D Optical Metrology