Boehringer Lilian lilian.boehringer@awi.de 0000-0001-7322-5145 Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven AWI https://www.awi.de/ https://ror.org/032e6b942 Heger Karl kheger@geomar.de 0000-0002-7716-7154 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Haeckel Matthias mhaeckel@geomar.de 0000-0001-9506-0716 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Purser Autun autun.purser@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/autun-purser.html 0000-0001-5427-0151 Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven AWI https://www.awi.de/ https://ror.org/032e6b942 2026 Image FAIR Digital Objects (iFDOs) of seafloor images of undisturbed and disturbed polymetallic nodule province seafloor collected during RV SONNE expedition SO295 dataset publication series https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.994607 2026-05-28T06:27:50 Seafloor images of undisturbed and disturbed polymetallic nodule provinces from the german (GER) and belgian (BEL) working area collected by RV SONNE's OFOS during the expedition SO295 (31.10.2022 - 23.12.2022). The main goal was to conduct an independent scientific monitoring and assessment of the environmental impacts of an industrial test of a polymetallic nodule collector vehicle in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone. The images were collected ~1.5 years after the collector trial. The OFOS is a towed underwater camera system equipped with both a high-resolution photo-camera (CANON EOS 5D Mark IV) and a high-definition video-camera (65° x 40° field of view). The cameras are mounted on a steel frame (160L x 115W x 117H cm), together with two strobe lights (Sea & Sun YS-250), three laser pointers at a distance of 40 cm from each other that were used to estimate the size of seafloor structures, four LED lights (SeaLite Sphere), a Tritech Altimeter, and a USBL positioning system (Posidonia) to track the position of the OFOS during deployments. In total, 15 OFOS deployments were carried out. The 5th OFOS deployment failed and for the first four deployments the position coordinates were inaccurate. Here we present 14 image FAIR Digital Objects (iFDOs) corresponding to each successful deployment. Each iFDO contains structured and standardized metadata per image. The actual images can be accessed through the image-handles provided in each iFDO. Schoening Timm tschoening@geomar.de 0000-0002-0035-3282 Durden Jennifer M Jennifer.durden@noc.ac.uk 0000-0002-6529-9109 Faber Claas 0000-0002-4861-3338 Felden Janine janine.felden@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/janine-felden.html 0000-0002-4177-6644 Heger Karl kheger@geomar.de 0000-0002-7716-7154 Hoving Henk-Jan T hhoving@geomar.de 0000-0002-4330-6507 Kiko Rainer rkiko@geomar.de 0000-0002-7851-9107 Köser Kevin kkoeser@geomar.de Krämmer Christopher 0009-0001-1994-0399 Kwasnitschka Tom tkwasnitschka@geomar.de 0000-0003-1046-1604 Möller Klas Ove Klas.Moeller@hereon.de 0000-0003-3118-2161 Nakath David 0000-0001-6461-3357 Naß Andrea Nattkemper Tim W 0000-0002-7986-1158 Purser Autun autun.purser@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/autun-purser.html 0000-0001-5427-0151 Zurowietz M 0000-0002-7122-2343 2022 Making marine image data FAIR journal article Scientific Data 9(1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01491-3 414 -125.9293036 -116.9815471 11.8108764 14.1194873 -120.85192313619251 12.826502895228101 2022-11-08T06:26:29 2022-12-16T18:18:09 irregular surface JPIO-MiningImpact JPI Oceans - Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining https://miningimpact.geomar.de GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 14 CC-BY-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Coordinate uncertainty | Coord unc | Image, under water | IMAGE water CCZ Deep-sea ecology Deep-sea mining iFDO polymetallic nodules Seafloor images param170981 param514706 pi79899 author106694 author106695 author106696 author106697 author106698 author34426 author35687 author38362 author44487 author47638 author47735 author56252 author56385 author61689 author62655 author74204 author74937 author79899 geocode1599 geocode1600 geocode1601 inst20147 inst32 journal16741 license21 project4206 ref127178 term50155 term50156 term50157 term52475 term74505 term76237 topotype6