Petrel Sub-basin Marine Survey (GA-0335 / SOL5463) (NLECI Program) - Ecology / Seabed underwater video footage and still images

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

The Petrel Sub-basin Marine Survey GA-0335 (SOL5463) was acquired by the RV Solander during May 2012 as part of the Commonwealth Government's National Low Emission Coal Initiative (NLECI). The survey was undertaken as a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and GA. The purpose was to acquire geophysical and biophysical data on shallow (less then 100m water depth) seabed environments within two targeted areas in the Petrel Sub-basin to support investigation for CO2 storage potential in these areas. Underwater video footage and still photographic images (12 megapixel resolution) from towed-video were acquired from 11 stations. The quality of imagery varies among transects and some still images were not of suitable quality for analysis. No still images are available for stations 2, 4 and 7 due to system malfunction. Video and still image files and associated parent folders are named by station number, gear code (CAM = underwater camera system) and then the deployment number. For example 'STN08CAM06' would represent a video transect from Station 08 that was the 6th video transect of the survey. Please note that the Ultra-short Baseline (USBL) acoustic tracking system used to track the towed-camera system failed early in the survey; hence geo-location of video transects and stills could only be linked to the R.V. Solander's ship navigation.

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Title Petrel Sub-basin Marine Survey (GA-0335 / SOL5463) (NLECI Program) - Ecology / Seabed underwater video footage and still images
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/df74d200-1e2f-4cec-b3ee-5b4c1997d147
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Petrel Sub-basin Marine Survey (GA-0335 / SOL5463) (NLECI Program) - Ecology / Seabed underwater video footage and still images". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/petrel-sub-basin-marine-survey-ga-0335-sol5463-nleci-program-ecology-seabed-underwater-video-fo1