Dataset

Occurrences of planktonic organisms imaged by an Underwater Vision Profiler 6 on a SeaExplorer glider during the 2021 spring bloom in the North Western Mediterranean Sea

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Regular glider surveys are conducted in the Ligurian Sea (North Western Mediterranean), between Nice and the DYFAMED sampling point. Between February and June 2021, i.e. during the spring bloom, the glider was equipped with an Underwater Vision Profiler: an intelligent camera system that records and process images, yielding images of all objects larger than ~600µm in Equivalent Spherical Diameter. These objects where then taxinomically assigned.

For more details on the method see https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12566.

Citation: Panaïotis T, Poteau A, Diamond E, Catalano C, Courchet L, Motreuil S, Coppola L, Picheral M, Irisson J (2026). Occurrences of planktonic organisms imaged by an Underwater Vision Profiler 6 on a SeaExplorer glider during the 2021 spring bloom in the North Western Mediterranean Sea. Version 1.2. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=uvp6_glider_planktonic_organism_north_western_mediterranean_sea&v=1.2

Published: March 06, 2026 at 15:07

First registration: December 04, 2025 at 13:46

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL: https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=uvp6_glider_planktonic_organism_north_western_mediterranean_sea

Contacts:

Thelma Panaïotis
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Antoine Poteau
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Emilie Diamond
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche

Camille Catalano
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Lucas Courchet
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Solene Motreuil
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche

Laurent Coppola
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Marc Picheral
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

Jean-Olivier Irisson
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche

40,899
occurrence records
54
taxa
3
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 40,899
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 6
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data