Highlights• This article investigates the impact of image enhancement and DCNN on marine habitat mapping.• Various image enhancement techniques have been tested, and CLAHE stands out the most.• DenseNet-169 and MobileNet as two different Neural Network models applied for classification.• Overall, DenseNet-169 with CLAHE method had the highest accuracy across all four datasets examined.
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