SEA-MES Voyage 3: Deep-Sea Benthic Imagery from RV Investigator, Nov-Dec 2024

RV Investigator voyage IN2024_V05 collected video and stereo stills of benthic habitats using a deep-towed camera system. The SEA-MES project voyage departed from and returned to Hobart, Australia, over a one-month period in late 2024. Imagery is accompanied by navigational and oceanographic data from the southeast marine ecosystem.

Use Cases

• Classifying benthic habitat types based on video and stereo still imagery
• Analyzing changes in marine ecosystems over a 25-year period based on the project's multi-year scope
• Training object detection models for marine fauna using deep-sea video frames
• Correlating habitat visual data with concurrent oceanographic measurements

Strengths

• Data collected over a defined one-month voyage from November 13 to December 12, 2024
• Includes multiple data modalities: video, stereo stills, and navigational data
• Imagery focused on benthic habitats in a specific southeast marine ecosystem

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via the Marine National Facility

Collection Method

Collected via the MNF Deep Towed camera (DTC) system during a research voyage

Time Range

November 13, 2024 to December 12, 2024 (AEST)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 06:24:24.062642; freshness should be verified

Geography

Southeast marine ecosystem, voyage departed from and returned to Hobart, Australia