Although their visual appearance is a pivotal factor attracting humans to coral reefs current monitoring protocols exclusively target biogeochemical parameters, neglecting changes in their aesthetic appearance. The natural beauty of coral reefs attracts millions of tourists worldwide resulting in substantial revenues for the adjoining economies. Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics. Cite this article Haas AF, Guibert M, Foerschner A, Co T, Calhoun S, George E, Hatay M, Dinsdale E, Sandin SA, Smith JE, Vermeij MJA, Felts B, Dustan P, Salamon P, Rohwer F. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. 8 Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States DOI 10.7717/peerj.1390 Published Accepted Received Academic Editor Robert Costanza Subject Areas Computational Science, Environmental Sciences, Natural Resource Management Keywords Image analysis, Coral reef, Aesthetics, Machine learning, Reef degradation Copyright © 2015 Haas et al.
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