HRC SCC Aerial-based Ship-follow Surveys February 2011
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Aerial surveys to monitor marine mammals and sea turtles (MM/ST) were conducted in
conjunction with two training events during the period February 16 to March 5, 2011, including
(a) U.S. Navy Submarine Commander’s Course (SCC) naval training event in the Hawaii Range Complex (HRC) on the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) instrumented range between Kauai
and Niihau, Hawaii; and
(b) Undersea Warfare Exercise (USWEX) training event south of Oahu
and Molokai.
Surveys in support of the SCC event occurred on 4 consecutive days from
February 16 to 19, 2011, in waters adjoining Kauai and Niihau where the missile destroyer (DDG)
and other ships were operating, followed by shoreline surveys of Kauai and Niihau on 2 separate
days thereafter: February 24 and 26, 2011.
This was followed by shoreline surveys of the Four
Islands region in support of the USWEX event on 2 separate days, February 28 and March 5, 2011.
The survey methods and sampling design were submitted and approved in advance, per the
statement of work (SOW), to the Navy Technical Representative (NTR) and followed previously
established protocol (Mobley and Milette 2010; Smultea et al. 2009a,b).

not provided

This dataset includes humpback whale sightings during the ship-follow surveys.
Sightings during the transect surveys is available:
HRC SCC Aerial-based Transect Surveys February 2011

Datasets for the shoreline surveys are available:
HRC SCC Aerial-based Shoreline Surveys February 2011
HRC USWEX Aerial-based Shoreline Surveys February and March 2011

All the US Navy-funded survey datasets are found in the OBIS-SEAMAP US Navy page.

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)
objectid	Internal ID
altitudem	Altitude in meters
angle	Angle
animalheading	(blank)
animallatitude	(blank)
animallongitude	(blank)
bearing	Bearing
beaufortscale	Beaufort sea scale
behavioralevent	(blank)
calvespercent	(blank)
calvestotal	(blank)
contract	Contract name
obs_date	Date of the sighting (local time zone)
efforttype	Effort type (ON or OFF)
groupbest	Best estimate of group size
grouphigh	High estimate of group size
groupid	(blank)
grouplow	Low estimate of group size
island	(blank)
legnumber	Leg number
legtype	Leg type
notes	Notes
numberreacted	(blank)
observer	Observer ID
observerport	(blank)
observerstarboard	(blank)
pctime	(blank)
percentcloudcover	(blank)
photoframes	(blank)
photos	(blank)
platform	Platform (always Aerial)
platformded	(blank)
platformheadingmagnetic	(blank)
platformheadingtrue	(blank)
platformlatitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
platformlongitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
range	definition not provided
reaction	(blank)
reticle	Reticle
sightability	(blank)
sightingnumber	Sighting number
sightingtype	Sighting type (always Standard)
species	Species name recorded
speciescode	Species code by provider
speciescodebw	(blank)
speciescomname	Species common name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
specieshauledout	(blank)
speciespossresight	(blank)
speciessciname	Species scientific name
surveycat	(blank)
surveyid	Survey ID
surveylink	(blank)
surveytype	Survey type
swell	swell height
obs_time	Time of the sighting (local time zone)
timeend	(blank)
timestamp_	(blank)
video	(blank)
depth	Botom depth in meters
recordno	Record Number
separator	(blank)
aspect	(blank)
binoculars	(blank)
cargoships	(blank)
confidence	(blank)
conversionfactor	(blank)
crc_number	(blank)
cue	Cue of the sighting
endlatitude	(blank)
endlongitude	(blank)
eventnumber	(blank)
females	(blank)
ferries	(blank)
fishingboats	(blank)
glare	(blank)
glareleft	(blank)
glaremaxangle	(blank)
glareminangle	(blank)
glareright	(blank)
groupcohesion	(blank)
initialbehavior	(blank)
juveniles	(blank)
males	(blank)
militaryvessels	(blank)
maxdispersion	(blank)
mindispersion	(blank)
mixedgroup	(blank)
mixedwithsighting	(blank)
mixedwithspecies	(blank)
motoryachts	definition not provided
newborns	definition not provided
numofanimalsmixed	definition not provided
observeraft	(blank)
observerforward	(blank)
percentspecies	definition not provided
reactiontype	definition not provided
recorder	Recorder ID
sailingboats	definition not provided
speed	definition not provided
subgroups	Group code
surveynumber	definition not provided
surveysegmentid	definition not provided
surveysegmentno	definition not provided
unidadults	definition not provided
unknowntype	definition not provided
visibility	Visibility
visibilityleft	Visibility code of the left side
visibilityright	Visibility code of the right side
weather	definition not provided
winddirection	(blank)
windspeed	(blank)
time_text	definition not provided
date_text	definition not provided
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP