Example images for biotic labels used in the Antarctic Seafloor Annotated Imagery Database. The catalog presents up to 16 randomly selected images per classification, based on the Australian Morphospecies Catalog and CATAMI scheme. All underlying data are publicly available on the Squidle+ platform.
Use Cases
- Training image classification models based on example images for biotic labels.
- Validating species detection algorithms against a catalog of known Antarctic seafloor organisms.
- Studying the distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) taxa based on the VME-taxa flag.
- Cross-referencing organism occurrences with specific research campaigns listed in the 'Found in campaigns' field.
Strengths
- Provides up to 16 example images for each biotic classification label.
- Includes metadata on total annotations per label and campaign presence.
- Flags classifications identified as CCAMLR Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) taxa.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au.
- Collection Method
- A snapshot of the Antarctic Seafloor Annotated Imagery Database (AS-AID) at the time of publication of an associated data-paper.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-13 21:03:17.505943; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Antarctic seafloor regions.