British Antarctic Survey Argos satellite tracking data
SCAR-MarBIN

Dataset credit

iOBIS and SCAR-MarBIN

Abstract

Location information derived from ARGOS PTT tracking devices deployed on higher predators by British Antarctic Survey scientists since 1990

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Original data obtained from http://w2.scarmarbin.be/digir2/digir.php and registered into iOBIS on 2010-12-07. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 53176) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

References

Data on iOBIS. 2010. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=2294, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://w2.scarmarbin.be/digir2/digir.php, obtained on 2010-12-12

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Helen Peat

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

The attributes of this dataset are compatible with the OBIS Schema, then reformatted to the OBIS-SEAMAP schema. If you would like to get the data in the OBIS Schema, please visit iOBIS Portal.

SEAMAP ID103152294
Seabirds35,808
Marine mammals0
Sea turtles0
Total35,808
Date, Begin1990-08-25
Date, End2004-03-24
Latitudes-70.04 - -24.32
Longitudes-145.52 - 99.70
PlatformVarious
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
SourceiOBIS
Updated2011-10-12