There are some astonishingly nice reefs to be found all along Oman’s diverse coastlines. I hope to eventually post these on my Adobe Portfolio by late-2025.
Oman site 1: Novice Bay (2024-05-20)
Oman site 2: Cave Site (2024-05-20)
Oman site 3: Jissah Point (2024-05-21)
Oman site 4: Cat Island (2024-05-21)
Oman site 5: Daymaniyat site 1 (2024-05-25)
Oman site 6: Daymaniyat site 2 (2024-05-25)-in prep. as of 2025-08-20
Oman site 7: Daymaniyat site 3 (2024-05-25)-TBD
Around 700 images were taken of these reefs, of which 660 were analyzed via the CoralNet AI to estimate coral cover (%). I manually annotated 260 of them, at which point the AI’s accuracy (85%) was deemed satisfactory to annotate the remaining images automatically.
In addition to the edited photos on my Adobe Portfolio (see links above.), they can also be downloaded directly from CoralNet (open access) under accession#6625.