Dive Reporter - Mobile App for Counting Underwater Marine Biodiversity

Tablet application designed for scuba divers and dive operators to report species during post-dive surveys. The app collects abundance/scarcity of pre-established marine taxa and ask divers to report abundance using a categorical semi-quantitative scale. Current taxa list has been developed for Madeira archipelago by local marine scientists in a case study designed to collect data and assess the usability of the application by divers. The application has scale-up capacity to be used in other geographic locations for regional longitudinal studies with custom lists of target species and enabling large spatial studies over time. Mobile application is available online 1 while the graphical user interface is seen in Figure 1.