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Still photographs and spectral data from NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration Operation Deep Scope cruise in the Gulf of America from 2004-08-07 to 2004-08-17 (NCEI Accession 0001966)

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This dataset contains still images and spectral data obtained during the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration (OER) Operation Deep Scope cruise in the Gulf of America, April 7-17, 2004. Still images and video were captured using an automatic camera system called Eye-in-the-Sea. This battery-powered camera system uses a red light-emitting diode (LED), which deep-sea animals can't see, in combination with a low-light-level (LLL) camera. Fluorescence imaging and light characterization (spectral data) using a sensitive spectrometer was also conducted directly from the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.

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0001966 FLUORESCENCE LIGHT INTENSITY MARINE SPECIES INVENTORY camera spectrophotometer biological Johnson-Sea-Link I R/V Seward Johnson II Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute NOAA Ocean Exploration University of Miami NOAA Ocean Exploration Office of Ocean Exploration and Research's Integrated Product Team (OER IPT) Gulf of America Gulf of Mexico oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/OOE > Office of Ocean Exploration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE CAMERA > CAMERA OPTSPEC > Optical Spectrometer SUBMARINE Ships JOHNSON-SEA-LINK I (ICES code: 33J1, 1971-2011) SEWARD JOHNSON II (call sign: WTL4798, ICES code: 33S2, 2001-2006) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO

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title Still photographs and spectral data from NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration Operation Deep Scope cruise in the Gulf of America from 2004-08-07 to 2004-08-17 (NCEI Accession 0001966)

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