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Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Towed Video)

Created 24/06/2017

Updated 24/06/2017

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The seabed habitat, marine plant and sessile megabenthos cover of the 200,000 km² area of the GBR shelf seabed was observed by a 500 m transect of a Drop-Camera video system at 1210 sites, representing a full range of known physical environments, during six 1-month-long voyages on the AIMS vessel Lady Basten. Continuous underway coding during transects recorded cover of 9 substrata types, 26 biohabitat types, and occurrence of 12 faunal classes. Laboratory post-analysis of the video recorded more detail at ~30 random frames per transect, including: 11 physical topography types, 23 substratum types, 115 biological types -- the dataset comprises 176,000 records site-by-type records. In addition, during most transects, digital still photographs were taken at 5-15 second intervals with strobes, and CTD data were recorded.

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Title Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Towed Video)
Language English
Licence Other
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/1d8c67c4-c405-48c2-b2d9-aecba5bfd7d4
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CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[142.6, -24.5], [153.4, -24.5], [153.4, -10.7], [142.6, -10.7], [142.6, -24.5]]]}
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