Benthic assemblage and habitat dynamics monitored with photogrammetry reconstructions of the Eiffel Tower hydrothermal edifice (2015, 2018 and 2020)

The Eiffel Tower hydrothermal edifice is a large structure of ~450 m2 located at a depth of 1700 m in the South-East of the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field. Since the deployment of the EMSO-Azores observatory in 2010, the edifice has been repeatedly surveyed with the remotely operated vehicle Victor6000 for inter-annual monitoring. Video transects were collected with a forward-looking camera in 2015, 2018 and 2020. Video sequences were used to build 3D models of the edifice using structure-from-motion techniques. Surface of substrata, vent megafaunal assemblages, microbial mat and the position of hydrothermal vent outflows and topographic changes were digitised over the 3D models for each side of the edifice. These variables were used to investigate scales of ecological dynamics over space and time. Hereby, we provide the dataset as well as a method to extract and visualise data in open-source software (R).

Disciplines

Biological oceanography

Keywords

Vent ecology, Temporal monitoring, Hydrothermal edifice, Underwater imagery, Photogrammetry, Structure-from-motion, Chemosynthetic ecosystem, Deep sea, Fine scales, High resolution

Location

37.17N, 37.17S, -32.16E, -32.16W

Devices

Camera of the remotely operated vehicle Victor6000 mounted in a forward configuration.

Annotations were computed on the 3DMetrics software (Arnaubec et al. 2023).

Please see the read me file for further understanding on data formatting and handling.

Data

FileSizeFormatProcessingAccess
Annotations of assemblages, microbial mats and substrata
3 Mo.JSONProcessed data
Annotations of flanges
29 Ko.JSONProcessed data
Annotation of fluid exits
18 Ko.JSONProcessed data
Annotations of Alvinocaridid shrimp assemblages
171 Ko.JSONProcessed data
Annotations of S. mesatlantica crabs
25 Ko.JSONProcessed data
Annotations of topographic changes
84 Ko.JSONProcessed data
Annotations extracted as .csv from .json files
2 MoCSVProcessed data
Read me
21 KoDOC, DOCX
Exploration by visualisation of 3D data in space and time with R
3 Mo.zipProcessed data
How to cite
Van Audenhaege Loic, Girard Fanny, Sarrazin Jozee, Cannat Mathilde, Arnaubec Aurelien, Matabos Marjolaine (2023). Benthic assemblage and habitat dynamics monitored with photogrammetry reconstructions of the Eiffel Tower hydrothermal edifice (2015, 2018 and 2020). SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/96475

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