BenthiCat: An opti-acoustic dataset for advancing benthic classification and habitat mapping

Hayat Rajani, Valerio Franchi, Borja Martinez-Clavel Valles +3

The paper presents BenthiCat, a large multi‑modal dataset of side‑scan sonar tiles, bathymetric maps, and co‑registered optical images for training and benchmarking machine learnin…