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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-7345-2026
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A global consistent database of plankton and detritus from in situ imaging by the Underwater Vision Profiler 5
Ariadna C. Nocera
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Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, CCT-CENPAT-CONICET, U9120ACD, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Marcel Babin
Département de Biologie, Universite Laval, Québec, Canada
Tristan Biard
Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG), Universite du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Université Lille, CNRS, IRD, UMR 8187, Wimereux, France
Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Julie Coustenoble
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
François Carlotti
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Aix-Marseille Universite, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, UMR 7294, Marseille, France
Laurent Coppola
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, OSU STAMAR, UAR2017, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris CEDEX 05, France
Lucas Courchet
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, IMEV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Laetitia Drago
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
current address: Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN-IPSL), Sorbonne Université, UMR 7159 CNRS-IRD-MNHN, Paris, France
Amanda Elineau
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Lionel Guidi
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Helena Hauss
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway
Laëtitia Jalabert
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, IMEV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Lee Karp-Boss
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Rainer Kiko
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway
Manon Laget
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Aix-Marseille Universite, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, UMR 7294, Marseille, France
current address: Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Fabien Lombard
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Andrew McDonnell
College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Camille Merland
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Solène Motreuil
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Thelma Panaïotis
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
current address: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Marc Picheral
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Andreas Rogge
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Anya Waite
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jean-Olivier Irisson
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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Editorial statement
This manuscript presents a commendable effort to assemble and standardize a comprehensive, decade-long (2008–2018) global dataset of plankton and detritus from Underwater Vision Profiler. The resulting archive of approximately eight million validated images is a valuable resource that will support future analyses of plankton biogeography, enhance biogeochemical models, and aid in developing AI-driven image classification methods.
This manuscript presents a commendable effort to assemble and standardize a comprehensive,...
Short summary
Plankton and sinking organic particles (detritus) shape how the ocean stores carbon, but they are difficult to observe worldwide. We present a global, openly available collection of about 8 million images captured by an underwater camera (UVP5) in 3114 profiles from 2008 to 2018 and sorted into 33 categories. Detritus made up 90 % of the objects and copepods were the most common plankton. The dataset can help train machine learning tools and improve ocean ecosystem and climate models.
Plankton and sinking organic particles (detritus) shape how the ocean stores carbon, but they...
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