Deep Sea Image Database
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has launched a new database for deep sea still images which were obtained by JAMSTEC's deep sea research vehicles.
On this database JAMSTEC publicizes images whose moratorium periods have expired. Although images on this web are in low resolution JPEG format, JAMSTEC also has high resolution version of those images.
Similar images may be frequently shown in a row because images are not chosen but all of images obtained are posted. Users are able to search images by submersibles names, dive numbers or areas and see images obtained in a specific dive. All of images on this site belong to JAMSTEC.
- Terms and Conditions
- JAMSTEC has copyrights of images in this database. Although using these images for scientific or educational purposes is free of charge, users are requested to express that images of JAMSTEC are used in the paper, document or video etc. In using other purposes, please contact to JAMSTEC.
- Contact
- Data Management Office in JAMSTEC manages this database and images in it. Contact address on this database and images is following;
contact :
In case contacting to JAMSTEC on a specific image, please inform its file name; which is shown on the display page of the image.
For the request of images, please refer the page below,
JAMSTEC Data Site for Research Cruises > Application for Data and Samples
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/cruisedata/e/apply.html
Images in this database were taken by submersibles below,
