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Video Camera Help

Watching Live Video & Controlling Video Cameras

Our video camera pages lets you watch live video from our seafloor cameras. If you are a registered camera operator, you can also control video cameras.

Quick Instructions

If you want to watch live video

  1. Check the Lights Schedule for Seafloor Cameras on our eventcalendar to see when different cameras are turned on.
  2. Log in - You need to log in to view live video. If you haven't registered, it's easy to create a new account.
  3. Open one of the camera windows
  4. Watch the live video.
  5. Click the Users tab to see who's operating the camera and who else is watching.
  6. Add your own annotations if you see something interesting.

If you want to operate a camera

  1. Log in - _You need to log in to view live video. To operate a camera, you need to be a registered camera operator; if you want to become an operator, tell us about your research idea.
  2. Open one of the camera windows
  3. Power on the camera lights. (20% or less is needed for our low-lights cameras.)
  4. Adjust pan and tilt to explore the field of view.
  5. Use Messages tab to chat with other operators.
  6. Use Camera Presets to move camera to saved positions.
  7. Use Automated Observations to move camera through predefined observation routines.
Tips
  • Once you have clicked Generate Results you can continue with new searches.
  • You can download multiple time periods for the same instrument.
  • Large files that take more than 3 minutes to generate will be placed in your FTP directory.
  • Data collected during commissioning phase is not guaranteed to meet rigorous quality standards, as data continuity and instrument configurations fluctuated during this time.

Detailed Instructions

Live Video Window

The upper-left panel lets you watch live video from cameras on the seafloor. Although the cameras are usually powered on, the lights are only powered for limited time periods. We need to restrict our use of lights in sensitive deep-sea environments, which are normally dark all the time. On some cameras, the laser beams stay on all the time (as shown in the above-left image).

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