Preface The expedition ARK XIX/3 with the German icebreaking RV ...

All the geo-referenced mosaics are stored on-line in a hierarchical file structure:
cruise/dive/session/treatment. One mosaic represents the smallest unit consisting of
500 merged images collected within each half a minute during the mosaicking
process. It covers an area about 3 m x 6-7 m. And in this case one treatment consists
of up to about 20 mosaics which equals an area of about 3 m x 100 m (Figure B5.4-1
and B5.4-2).
2,5 - 3 m
one mosaic = 6,5 m
Fig. B5.4-1: This part of a treatment shows the construction of the images within the muddy
region (thermal centre) of the HMMV.
20 m
Fig. B5.4-2: Changing areas of tube worms and bacterial mats within a 20 m stripe in the
north west of the thermal centre of HMMV.
20 m
Fig. B5.4-3: Rough topography effects of pixel sizes during the real time video mosaicking.
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