Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

In more than three decades of deep-ocean exploration, tens of thousands of hours of video and still imagery have been captured by the oceanographic community at considerable effort and expense. However, only a fraction of that video has been viewed and analyzed in its entirety, and even less shared with the global scientific community.  
Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery. It will allow us to harness the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to gain new insights and make discoveries from existing data at scale and create data-driven real-time tools for ocean exploration. Recent advances in cloud computing and advanced analytics only now make those ambitions possible.