Aesthetic and Health Ratings for 180 Great Barrier Reef Photos from Online Survey
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Description
NESP TWQ 3.2.4 data from James Cook University presents raw survey data from 1,415 online Australian participants who aesthetically rated 180 photos of typical coral reef landscapes. Each photo was rated at least 380 times on a ten-point scale, and an expert research team contributed mean ratings for reef health, coral cover, pattern, topography, fish abundance, and visibility. The dataset was published by CSIRO in May 2019 and is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
Modeling public aesthetic preferences for reef landscapes based on survey ratings.
Correlating expert-assessed reef health metrics with public aesthetic perceptions.
Analyzing demographic influences on aesthetic ratings using participant information like age, location, and reef interest.
Training models to predict aesthetic scores from visual features of reef photographs.
Strengths
Includes 1,415 survey responses, with each of the 180 photos rated at least 380 times, providing a robust sample.
Combines public aesthetic ratings with expert-provided mean scores for five specific ecological factors (coral health, cover, topography, fish abundance, visibility).
Contains detailed participant demographics, including age (average 46.96), gender (51.4% female), location (29% Queensland), and prior reef experience.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, as participants were all Australian.
Provenance
Source
James Cook University (JCU) under the NESP TWQ 3.2.4 project, published by CSIRO.
Collection Method
Online survey where participants rated 50 randomly selected photos from a pool of 180-181 Great Barrier Reef images on a 1-10 aesthetic scale.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-07-10 14:27:35.042805; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Great Barrier Reef, Australia; survey participants were from across Australia.
Two different published versions exist (CSIRO and eAtlas) with differing file formats and content; the CSIRO version is noted as the primary source.