NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Theme 1 - Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve Pilot Study - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Component

The Flinders CMR AUV survey was a pilot study undertaken in June 2013 as part of the National Marine Biodiversity Hub's National monitoring, evaluation and reporting theme. The aim of this theme is to develop a blueprint for the sustained monitoring of the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network. The particular aim of the survey was to contribute to an inventory of the distribution and cover of epibenthic biota in the reserve using IMOS AUV 'Sirius'. Data contained here represents a scored subset of the ~ 36,700 images collected at the Flinders CMR. Images were scored for proportion cover of visible macrobiota using 25 random points superimposed on each image. Taxon were biologically classified using CATAMI (http://catami.org/).弗林德斯联邦海洋保护区（Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve, CMR）自主水下航行器（Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, AUV）调查是2013年6月开展的试点研究，隶属于国家海洋生物多样性中心（National Marine Biodiversity Hub）的国家监测、评估与报告主题项目。该主题的目标是为东南联邦海洋保护区网络的长期持续监测制定顶层蓝图。本次调查的特定目标为：依托综合海洋观测系统（Integrated Marine Observing System, IMOS）的“天狼星”号自主水下航行器，为该保护区内底表生物（epibenthic biota）的分布与覆盖情况编制系统性名录。本数据集收录的是在弗林德斯联邦海洋保护区采集的约36700张图像中经过标注评分的子集。研究人员通过在每张图像上叠加25个随机采样点，对图像中可见大型生物（macrobiota）的覆盖占比完成标注评分。所有分类单元（Taxon）均通过CATAMI（http://catami.org/）完成生物学分类鉴定。