Understanding of Marine Imagery will establish a national repository for annotations of marine imagery, including those collected by IMOS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. This repository will aid in the sharing of quantitative information and encourage consistencies in annotated labelling and providing tools for summarising and reporting on data relating to species and habitat distributions around Australia. Squidle+ is an end-to-end marine image data delivery, management, discovery and annotation platform, and forms the foundation of this IMOS Sub-Facility.
It supports a variety of different data sources ranging from autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), baited remote underwater video (BRUVS), towed underwater imagery and diver photo quadrat data from Underwater Visual Census (UVC, eg: Reef Life Survey (RLS)).
This collection's map layer denotes centroid location for each Campaign contained within Squidle+. It provides key features like the names of the platforms used, and the number of deployments, media items, total annotations and public annotations for each Campaign. There are several styles associated with this layer, with the default one showing the total number of annotations by the sizes of the markers. The popups also contain a selection of sample images from the campaign, and the links provide hooks back to the Squidle+ interface to access the origin for each resource.
