PANGAEA_995771 Seabed Images at pilot oyster reefs in the Borkum Reef Ground marine protected area taken in May 2024 Pineda-Metz, Santiago E A; Pogoda, Bernadette Seabed Images at pilot oyster reefs in the Borkum Reef Ground marine protected area taken in May 2024 2026-07-06 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995771 Investigator Santiago E A Pineda-Metz sametz@awi.de Earth Science Event label Latitude of event Longitude of event Image Image (File Size) Analysis geoscientificInformation Multiple investigations RESTORE_Expedition_May_2024 RESTORE2024_East_Reef_Dive_1 RESTORE2024_East_Reef_Dive_2 RESTORE2024_West_Reef_Dive_1 Digital Camera, GoPro Fortuna Crane 2024-05-28 2024-05-29 Complete 53.91654 53.91671 6.278945 6.280278 RESTORE Restoration of the European oyster (Ostrea edulis) in the German North Sea: Development and practical testing of methods and approaches for a sustainable population recovery access rights needed CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (License comes into effect after moratorium ends) English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 1404 data points text/tab-separated-values Pineda-Metz, Santiago E A; Lippert, Heike; Pogoda, Bernadette (submitted): Offshore oyster reef habitat restoration: Community structure after five years and implications for conservation management. Scientific Reports Pineda-Metz, Santiago E A; Düffert, Rike; Pogoda, Bernadette (2026): Seabed Images at pilot oyster reefs in the Borkum Reef Ground marine protected area taken in July 2025 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995832

Video transects were done using the A.IKANBILISTM hovering autonomous underwater vehicle (HAUV) of the company BeeX (https://beex.sg/a-ikanbilis/), which flew over the reefs along predefined transects at a depth of 0.5m above seabed and at a speed of 1 m s-1. From the dive videos of the HAUV, SBIs were extracted every second. Each SBI features two parallel laser lines 30 cm away from each other. The camera used was a GoPro, the videos and pictures were taken perpendicularly to the seabed. The seabed images provide insights into the general composition of key species, higher systematic groups and ecological guilds. The images contain information on how benthic species are associated to each other. Transect files include individual images, whereas metadata of each image includes diving depth, date/time of transect. Geographical coordinates and time of individual images is unavailable, images have a resolution of 300dpi and a size of 9 to 13 MB. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995771"!

https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995832 Seabed Images at pilot oyster reefs in the Borkum Reef Ground marine protected area taken in July 2025 https://www.awi.de/en/science/biosciences/shelf-sea-system-ecology/main-research-focus/european-oyster/restore-1.html RESTORE DIF 9.4 2026-07-06 2026-07-15