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ArticleScientific data2025

Seatizen Atlas: a collaborative dataset of underwater and aerial marine imagery.

Matteo Contini, Victor Illien, Mohan Julien, Mervyn Ravitchandirane, Victor Russias, Arthur Lazennec, Thomas Chevrier, Cam Ly Rintz, Léanne Carpentier, Pierre Gogendeau and 8 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Matteo ContiniIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France. matteo.contini@ifremer.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-8665-6201
Victor IllienIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.
Mohan JulienIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2808-1095
Mervyn RavitchandiraneIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.
Victor RussiasIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.
Arthur LazennecIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.
Thomas ChevrierIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.
Cam Ly RintzIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0541-2332
Léanne CarpentierIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.
Pierre GogendeauIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.
César LeblancINRIA, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, 34000, France.
Serge BernardCNRS, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, 34000, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1772-0592
Alexandre BoyerUMR Marbec, IRD, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, Montpellier, 34000, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-2787-1044
Justine Talpaert DaudonUMR Marbec, IRD, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, Montpellier, 34000, France.
Sylvain PoulainUMR Marbec, IRD, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, Montpellier, 34000, France.
Julien BardeUMR Marbec, IRD, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, Montpellier, 34000, France.
Alexis JolyINRIA, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, 34000, France.
Sylvain BonhommeauIFREMER Délégation Océan Indien (DOI), Le Port, 97420, La Réunion, Rue Jean Bertho, France.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Citizen Science initiatives have a worldwide impact on environmental research by providing data at a global scale and high resolution. Mapping marine biodiversity remains a key challenge to which citizen initiatives can contribute. Here we describe a dataset made of both underwater and aerial imagery collected in shallow tropical coastal areas by using various low cost platforms operated either by citizens or researchers. This dataset is regularly updated and contains >1.6 M images from the Southwest Indian Ocean. Most of images are geolocated, and some are annotated with 51 distinct classes (e.g. fauna, and habitats) to train AI models. The quality of these photos taken by action cameras along the trajectories of different platforms, is highly heterogeneous (due to varying speed, depth, turbidity, and perspectives) and well reflects the challenges of underwater image recognition. Data discovery and access rely on DOI assignment while data interoperability and reuse is ensured by complying with widely used community standards. The open-source data workflow is provided to ease contributions from anyone collecting pictures.

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PMCPMC11733269

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