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

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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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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Field Value
Title Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Towed Video)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d8584b55-0a66-4a20-9bb0-0250ec3f2919
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Roland.Pitcher@csiro.au
Reference Period 17/09/2003 - 09/11/2005
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Towed Video)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/seabed-biodiversity-on-the-continental-shelf-of-the-great-barrier-reef-world-heritage-area-towe1