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Biodiversity at OBSEA seabed observatory 2024
Citation
Enoc Martinez, Marc Nogueras, Daniel M. Toma, Carla Artero-Delgado, Matias Carandell, David Sarria, Albert Garcia-Benadi, Gerard Batet, Oriol Prat, Pol Baños, Ikram Bghiel, Javier Cadena, Luna García, Neus Vidal, Joaquin del Rio, Joaquin del Rio. Biodiversity at OBSEA seabed observatory 2024. Occurrence dataset. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/9080
Contact: Martinez Padro, Enoc

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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

This dataset contains AI-based fish detections from underwater pictures collected by several cameras at the OBSEA seafloor observatory. Located 4 km offshore from Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain (NW Mediterranean), OBSEA is a multiparametric platform that has been continuously acquiring multidisciplinary marine data since 2009. The observatory includes a seabed station and a moored buoy.The AI model is a YOLOv8 xlarge trained with labeled underwater pictures from OBSEA. The model can be found here. The dataset also contains links to underwater pictures taken by several underwater cameras at OBSEA seafloor station.  

General Information  

Platforms: OBSEA Expandable Seafloor Observatory  

Sensors: IPC608UW-10, DCS-7010L, GNC328G2-XD, Sony_SNC-RZ25N, PopUp_Cam, AXIS_P1346 


Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Coast of Catalonia · Aetomylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) · Biota · Chelon Artedi, 1793 · Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Diplodus annularis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Diplodus puntazzo (Walbaum, 1792) · Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) · Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) · Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758 · Myliobatidae Bonaparte, 1835 · Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758) · Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) · Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) · Sciaena umbra Linnaeus, 1758 · Serranus scriba (Linnaeus, 1758) · Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758 · Spicara maena (Linnaeus, 1758) ·

Geographical coverage
Coast of Catalonia [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage
Aetomylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) [WoRMS]
Biota [WoRMS]
Chelon Artedi, 1793 [WoRMS]
Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Diplodus annularis (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Diplodus puntazzo (Walbaum, 1792) [WoRMS]
Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) [WoRMS]
Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) [WoRMS]
Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Myliobatidae Bonaparte, 1835 [WoRMS]
Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [WoRMS]
Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Sciaena umbra Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Serranus scriba (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Spicara maena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Symphodus mediterraneus

Contributors
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)data creator
del Rio Fernandez, Joaquin
Martinez Padro, Enoc
Prat, Oriol
Baños, Pol
Nogueras-Cervera, Marc
Artero-Delgado, Carla
García, Luna
Toma, Daniel Mihai

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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2026-04-29
Metadatarecord created: 2026-05-11
Information last updated: 2026-08-13
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