Applications

Pelagia helps oceanographic teams turn continuous imagery into useful biological observations during a survey—and into reproducible quantitative data afterward. It is built especially for shadowgraph imagery from the ISIIS-DPI family of plankton cameras, drawing on the field and analytical experience of the scientists, instrument developers, and operators behind these instruments and their deployment systems. By combining real-time insight with high-throughput processing and review, Pelagia supports programs working at scales where manual inspection alone is no longer practical.

Real-Time Plankton Identification #

Identify plankton as imagery arrives, giving teams an immediate view of biological observations during sampling. Real-time results can guide instrument monitoring, reveal changes in the water column, and begin the path to analysis-ready data before a deployment is complete.

Instrument-To-Data Systems #

Pelagia can serve as the analysis layer for imaging instruments that produce continuous or repeated observations. It preserves the relationships among raw imagery, time and position, instrument state, environmental measurements, processing and model versions, review decisions, and final biological records. The result is an oceanographic observation system—not a disconnected collection of classified pictures.

Survey And Monitoring Programs #

Pelagic imagery can support repeated surveys, long-term observatories, instrument comparisons, and habitat-scale monitoring. Pelagia helps teams organize imagery into a workflow that can preserve context while producing data products suitable for comparison across collections.

Training And Classification #

High-quality training data starts with careful review. Pelagia helps teams identify candidate regions, inspect examples, refine labels, and prepare curated outputs that can support segmentation, classification, and model-evaluation work.

Quality Control #

Interactive review makes it easier to catch drift, false positives, missed detections, inconsistent masks, and confusing edge cases. Pelagia keeps review products and progress visible so teams can understand where confidence is strong and where the workflow needs adjustment.

Analysis And Export #

The utility of pelagic imagery depends on getting from pictures to structured records. Pelagia is oriented toward exports that can feed abundance workflows, size or morphology measurements, spatial and temporal comparisons, and reproducible data science pipelines.