Through regular sampling surveys, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) is generating a long‐term data series for the Belgian coastal water and sandbank system, a designated site in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. The data series is built from sampling activities initiated in 2012 in the framework of the LifeWatch marine observatory. Nine nearshore stations are sampled monthly, with an additional eight offshore stations sampled seasonally. This paper presents the generated data series for zooplankton densities and size measurements, analysed using a ZooScan plankton imaging device together with the ZooProcess and Plankton Identifier software packages. To date 673.017 biological particles have been collected and identified. The collection and processing of the 2012–2018 dataset is described, along with its data curation and quality control. Yearly versions of the data are published in a standardized format together with environmental parameters, accompanied by an extensive metadata description and labelled with digital identifiers for traceability. The data are published under a CC‐BY 4.0 license, allowing use of the data under the condition of providing the reference to the original source.

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生命观察天文台数据：北海比利时部分的浮游动物观测

通过定期抽样调查，法兰德斯海洋研究所（VLIZ）正在为比利时沿海水沙洲系统（长期生态研究（LTER）网络中的指定地点）生成长期数据系列。该数据系列是根据2012年在LifeWatch海洋观测站框架内开展的抽样活动建立的。每月对9个近海站进行采样，另外按季节对8个近海站进行采样。本文介绍了生成的用于浮游动物密度和大小测量的数据系列，使用ZooScan浮游生物成像设备以及ZooProcess和浮游生物标识符软件包对它们进行了分析。迄今为止，已经收集和鉴定了673.017个生物颗粒。描述了2012-2018年数据集的收集和处理，以及其数据管理和质量控制。数据的年度版本以标准格式与环境参数一起发布，并带有大量的元数据描述，并标有数字标识符以进行追溯。数据以CC‐BY 4.0许可证发布，允许在提供原始来源参考的条件下使用数据。