JAX MAVEX Aerial Monitoring 2012
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.

Dataset credit

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Contacts

Role	Name	Organization
Primary contact	Dana Spontak	HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Data entry	Ei Fujioka	Duke University

Citation

Spontak, D. 2012. JAX MAVEX Aerial Monitoring 2012. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/875) on yyyy-mm-dd.

Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.

Abstract

Aerial marine species monitoring occurred on 28 February and 29 February 2012 for a Maverick Missile Exercise (MAVEX) training event off the eastern coast of Florida within the U.S. Navy’s Missile Laser Training Range (MLTR).

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

[2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Turtles: Testudines (173749) => Testudines (948936)

[2014-07-02] The unit of Distance field was wrong in the metadata. It is in meters.

References

HDR. 2012. Jacksonville (JAX) Maverick Missile Exercise (MAVEX) Event Marine Species Monitoring AERIAL MONITORING SURVEYS TRIP REPORT.

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 noted below.

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
event	Event
sighting_no	Sighting No.
obs_date	Observation date
species	Species name
sp_obs	Species name recorded
sp_tsn	ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number assigned by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_count	Group size - best
count_high	Group size - high
count_low	Group size - low
calves	Number of calves
obs_time	Start time (local time zone)
stop_time	Stop time (local time zone)
beaufort	Beaufort Sea State
latitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
vert_angle	Vertical angle in degrees
distance	Distance off Track in meters
heading	Heading in degrees
bottom_depth	Bottom Depth (m)
behavior	Behavioral Summary
navy_ship	Navy Ship Present (Yes/No)
exercise	Pre/During/Post Exercise
bearing_angle	Bearing Angle
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP

OBIS-SEAMAP ID	875
Seabirds	0
Marine mammals	14
Sea turtles	83
Rays and sharks	3
Other species	20
Non spatial	1
Non species	0
Total	121
Date, Begin	2012-02-28
Date, End	2012-02-29
Temporal prec.	111110
Latitude	30.31 - 31.02
Longitude	-81.33 - -80.10
Coord. prec.	3 decimal digits
Platform	Plane
Data type	Animal sighting
Effort	N/A
Contr. through	Navy
Registered	2012-09-17
Updated	2020-10-01
Status	Published
Sharing policy	CC-BY (All)
Also available from	iOBIS
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