CODA cetacean sightings on tracker platform of vessel surveys 2007

Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews

Dataset credit

Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Claire Lacey Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews
Data entry Ei Fujioka Duke University

Citation

Lacey, C. 2015. CODA cetacean sightings on tracker platform of vessel surveys 2007. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1182) 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

The Cetacean Offshore Distribution and Abundance in the European Atlantic (CODA) project estimated the abundance and investigated the habitat use of cetacean species in waters beyond the continental shelf and developed a management framework for determining safe bycatch limits for the common dolphin in this area. The results were intended primarily to inform assessments of the conservation status of all cetacean species and to help assess the impact of bycatch of common dolphin.

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Surveys from seven different vessels were merged. Each vessel contained two sightings platforms running concurrently – primary and tracker. This dataset includes sightings from the tracker platform. Sightings from the primary platform are registered in CODA cetacean sightings on primary platform of vessel surveys 2007.
Effort (vessel tracks) is associated with the primary platform dataset.

References

CODA Team. 2009. Cetacean Offshore Distribution and Abundance in the European Atlantic (CODA). CODA Final Report. 11-Feb-2009.

Attributes

Overview

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

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)Description
oidUnique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
iddefinition not provided
vesseldefinition not provided
sighting_numberdefinition not provided
obs_datetimedefinition not provided
latitudeLatitude in decimal degrees
longitudeLongitude in decimal degrees
buttondefinition not provided
sp_obsSpecies name recorded
sp_tsnTaxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
perpdistdefinition not provided
angledefinition not provided
radial_distancedefinition not provided
multi_speciesdefinition not provided
id_confidencedefinition not provided
low_numberdefinition not provided
obs_countBest estimate of number of animals
high_numberdefinition not provided
calvesNumber of calves
cueRecord of the initial cue for the sighting
behaviourBehavior
aspect_valuedefinition not provided
transectdefinition not provided
platformdefinition not provided
geomGeometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP
OBIS-SEAMAP ID1182
Seabirds0
Marine mammals525
Sea turtles0
Rays and sharks0
Other species0
Non spatial0
Non species1
Total526
Date, Begin2007-07-04
Date, End2007-07-30
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude42.05 - 60.06
Longitude-17.53 - -2.29
Coord. prec.2 decimal digits
PlatformBoat
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
Traveled (km)0
0
Contr. through
Registered2014-07-01
Updated2015-09-30
StatusPublished
Sharing policy CC-BY-NC (Minimum)
Shared with OBIS
GBIF (via DOI)
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