Bassurelle Sandbank Seafloor Images with Habitat Data, 2013 Survey

511 still images of the seafloor collected during a 2013 survey of the Bassurelle Sandbank Special Area of Conservation. The images were captured by a camera sledge deployed from the research vessel Cefas Endeavour during a controlled drift. The dataset is provided by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as an ArcGIS point feature class.

Use Cases

• Classifying seafloor habitat types based on the characterized imagery.
• Mapping the distribution of benthic features across the sandbank based on geospatial points.
• Training computer vision models for automated detection of marine organisms or substrate types.
• Assessing habitat condition for conservation monitoring purposes.

Strengths

• Contains 511 characterized still images.
• Specific survey details are provided, including vessel, cruise code, and collection dates.
• Collection methodology is described, including deployment method and drift speed.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-04-14 09:44:51.158283; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Collection Method

Still images collected via a camera sledge deployed from the stern of the Cefas Endeavour research vessel.

Time Range

29/03/2013 to 31/03/2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:44:51.158283

Geography

Bassurelle Sandbank Special Area of Conservation (SCI)