Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 07/2005 Video Mapping benthic ecosystems on the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "South West Region"

This dataset contains video mapping data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage SS 07/2005. The voyage took place off the Western Australian Coast during July August 2005.
Map data were collected successfully at all locations; map data were processed and products made on board; these were used to target photographic and sediment sampling. Initial map products are of extremely high quality and enable visualization of habitat features at a range of relevant spatial scales. There was a total of 223 sampling stations at 21 sites: 2 box cores, 16 stereo video and stills camera stations; 49 CTD casts; 107 smith macintyre grabs and 2 sherman sleds. Sediment and photographic data were taken successfully at virtually all planned stations at depths of 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 700 m and 1000 m (a few were lost to weather), and at several additional stations. Sub-samples from sediments were taken for geological analysis, faunal analysis, and stable isotope analysis. The quality of the video and still digital photographic data was very high; a wide variety of previously unseen seabed types and benthic animals were recorded.
This record relates to the video data collected on this voyage that was scored for dominant substrate, geomorphology, habitat structure and dominant fauna and databased. These data have been added to the Oracle data base BHIMAGE and the associated videos and still images have been archived as described in MarLIN record 14436 'Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive'.