In-situ images of glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Rossellidae) extracted from ROV videos recorded during POLARSTERN cruise PS96 (ANT-XXXI/2, FROSN) in the Weddell Sea ...

• Main Authors: Federwisch, Luisa, Johansson, Roger, Anderson, Emil, Holtappels, Moritz, Richter, Claudio
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Event label; Species; File name; File format; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Remote operated vehicle; PS96; Polarstern; Bentho-Pelagic Processes @ AWI AWI_BPP; Weddell Sea; Glass sponges
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.897622; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.897622

The copyright of the images is owned by the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. The AWI has the right to use the images for scientific analysis, publication and Communication and Media purposes. Any other usage needs formal approval by the Lovén Centre.The ROV used was an Ocean Modules V8 Offshore belonging to the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. It was equipped with one forward-looking High Definition (HD) video camera (1920x1080 px) and two standard video cameras (720x576 px). Two parallel green lasers provided a reference scale of 6.5 cm in the videos of the HD camera. Lighting was ensured by eight LED lights.The ROV was piloted by Roger Johansson and Emil Anderson (Sven Lovén Centre, University of Gothenburg). Ground work consisted of different measurements and water sampling in the vicinity of sponges while the ROV was stationary on the seafloor and was recorded by the HD video camera. Close-ups of details of the sponges were ...