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Overlapping seabed images collected at Looe Key coral reef, Florida, 2022

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Catalog Last Checked: May 05, 2026 at 10:15 PM | Dataset Last Updated: November 08, 2023 at 12:00 AM
A total of 195,839 underwater images were collected at Looe Key, Florida, in July 2022, using the novel SfM (Structure-from-Motion) Quantitative Underwater Imaging Device with 5 cameras (SQUID-5) system. The SQUID-5 is a towed surface vehicle with five downward-looking underwater cameras developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and records images in the Tagged Image File Format (.tif) to maintain the highest resolution and bit depth. Each image includes imagery header metadata (including, but not limited to: Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) date, time, latitude, longitude, and altitude of the GNSS antenna mounted on the vehicle, copyright, and keywords).

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