OFOBS Seafloor images from the Antarctic Peninsula and Powell Basin, collected during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS118

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During the RV POLARSTERN cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula and Powell Basin during Feb - April 2019 the Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS) was used to collect still and video images, as well as sidescan data, from various locations surveyed during the research cruise.The OFOBS system consisted of a towed underwater camera system equipped with both 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 (140L x 92W x 135H 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.In automatic mode, a seabed photo, depicting an area of approximately 4 m**2, with variations depending on the actual height above ground, was taken every ~15 seconds to obtain series of "TIMER" stills distributed at regular distances along each of the survey profiles. Profile lengths varied in length depending on duration of the cast, usually determined by the current ice and sea state conditions at time of survey. At a ship speed of 0.5 kn, the average distance between seabed images was approximately 5 m. Ship speed was however greatly influenced by ice conditions. Additional "HOTKEY" photos were taken from interesting objects (organisms, seabed features, etc) when they appeared in the live video feed.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911904
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.911904
Provenance
Creator Purser, Autun ORCID logo; Hehemann, Laura ORCID logo; Dreutter, Simon ORCID logo; Dorschel, Boris ORCID logo; Nordhausen, Axel
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Publication Year 2020
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 11 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-57.826W, -64.940S, -48.897E, -60.887N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-03-06T04:59:49Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-04-04T08:40:56Z