Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS) seafloor images of the Fram Strait collected during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS136

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During the RV POLARSTERN cruise PS136 (2023-05-22 to 2023-06-19) to the long-term ecological research station HAUSGARTEN observatory in the Fram Strait the Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS) was used to collect still and video images from various locations surveyed during the expedition. The OFOBS consisted of a towed underwater camera system equipped with a high-resolution photo-camera (iSiTEC, CANON EOS 5D Mark III) and a high-definition video-camera (iSiTEC, Sony FCB-H11) as well as an integrated sidescan sonar system. The cameras were mounted on a steel frame (140 L x 92 W x 135 H cm), together with two strobe lights (iSiTEC UW-Blitz 250, TTL driven), three laser pointers spaced with a distance of 50 cm used to estimate the size of seafloor structures, four LED lights, and a USBL positioning system (Posidonia) to track the position of the OFOBS during deployments, with additional positioning information provided by the integrated INS and DVL systems. An automatic seafloor image was taken every 20 seconds to obtain 'TIMER' stills distributed at regular distances along each of the survey profiles. Additional 'MANUAL' photos were triggered individually when interesting objects appeared in the live feed. In total, 9 OFOBS deployments were carried out. If no positions for the OFOBS were available, the ships position was used instead. Metadata in the form of iFDOs are available for each deployment containing a detailed description of the image collection and curation process.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.971365
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.57738/BzPM_0780_2023
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.971365
Provenance
Creator Isler, Tea ORCID logo; Boehringer, Lilian ORCID logo; Purser, Autun ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
Representation
Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 9 datasets
Discipline Biospheric Sciences; Ecology; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-3.081W, 78.617S, 9.528E, 79.582N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-05-30T00:08:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-06-16T08:14:35Z