Workflow reference Shallow reef photogrammetry

Soneva reef time series

High-density, metrically scaled 3D reef surveys across six co-registered plots. Explore one real capture at a time, then move through its measured history.

6
reef plots
23
3D surveys
22,422
source images
Explore the reconstruction
One full-density measured survey in its native coordinate frame
OOTS Left 1 / Slope and wall

Feb 18, 2026

620,591
splats
146.5 MB
LOD2
What this dataset actually is

Six small reef plots were captured repeatedly and co-registered through time. They are rich local digital twins, not 23 adjacent pieces of one continuous giant reef.

On slope, SW corner located on tall outcrop near start of vertical wall section

Recorded scale-bar depths: 5.0–7.5 m.

Full source
209,071,395

LOD0 Gaussians available across all 23 surveys.

Source payload
49.3 GB

Full-resolution PLY data before browser delivery optimization.

Viewer policy
LOD1–3

One measured scene at a time, with SH appearance preserved by Spark.

Pipeline proof

One dataset, the whole publication chain.

  1. 01
    Source imagery
    22,422 GoPro frames
  2. 02
    Reconstruction
    COLMAP poses and dense geometry
  3. 03
    Spatial products
    Five splat LODs and metric PMTiles
  4. 04
    Twin publication
    Versioned viewer and provenance

Shallow tropical reef workflow reference. It is not presented as deep-sea Lophelia evidence.

Through Mar 4, 2026 Source dataset / CC-BY-4.0