AURORA Sample Dataset

This repository contains a subset of the AURORA dataset, a multi sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration. It accompanies the dataset and the report "AURORA, A multi sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration", by Marco Bernardi, Brett Hosking, Chiara Petrioli, Brian J. Bett, Daniel Jones, Veerle Huvenne, Rachel Marlow, Maaten Furlong, Steve McPhail and Andrea Munafo.

Please refer to https://github.com/noc-mars/aurora for further information.

The dataset sample provided in this repository includes a subset of the data collected during cruise James Cook 125 (JC125) of the National Oceanography Centre, using the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Autosub 6000. It is composed of two AUV missions: M86 and M86.

• M86 contains a sample of multi-beam echosounder data in .all format. It also contains CTD and navigation data in csv format.

• M87 contains a sample of the camera and side-scan sonar data. The camera data contains 8 of 45320 images of the original dataset. The camera data are provided in .raw format (pixels are ordered in Bayer format). The size of each image is of size 2448x2048. The side-scan sonar folder contains a one ping sample of side-scan data provided in .xtf format. The entire AUV navigation file is provided as part of this subset in .csv form.

The samples is chosen to provide some representative examples of the type and quality of all the data collected.

Dependencies

Some of the files in this repository are relatively large and we use the open source Git extension for versioning large files.

Please install lfs running git lsf install before pulling the repository.