The construction of Habitat Suitability Models (HSMs) can be used to guide decision-making in restoration projects. This is done through collating spatial and temporal data sets (either by conducting baseline surveys deliberately and / or from collating existing data).

HSMs can be used to help predict where seagrass could potentially grow, based on factors such as shear bed stress, slope, depth and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). Hydrodynamic connectivity data including the identification of propagule sinks and sedimentation/erosion rates is also important. Such information can also be used to assess the likely potential for successful seagrass restoration at a given locality and inform which seagrass meadows represent potential donor sites and dispersal source sites.

However, in the future Restoration Suitability Models (RSMs) could be developed, which not only consider traditional habitat suitability data set, but which could also consider a variety of logistical and societal factors. RSMs could consider areas where it would either be suitable or not suitable to undertake restoration for reasons other than the purely ecological.