Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles
Yaniv Levy
Dataset credit
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Contacts
Role | Name | Organization | |
Primary contact |
Israel Center |
Isreal's Sea Turtle Monitoring Program |
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Data entry |
Michael Coyne |
seaturtle.org |
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Citation
Center I. 2024. Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964) on yyyy-mm-dd and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=303).
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Abstract
Israel National Nature and Parks Authority (INNPA) conducts a management plan for sea turtles since the 1980s. During more than 30 years, rangers are surveying the Mediterranean coasts, tracking, protecting and relocating loggerhead and green turtles' nests into hatcheries in coastal nature reserves. The hatcheries are protected and during the hatching season, the hatchlings are released by the help of rangers and volunteers. More than 100,000 hatchlings were released so far. In 1999 INNPA established a sea turtle rescue center and every year dozens of wounded turtles are rehabilitated and more than 60% are released back to the wild. The turtles suffer from various injuries that result from fishing activity, pollution, plastic debris etc. One part of the rescue center’s work is raising a breeding stock of green sea turtles. Their offspring will be released to the sea from the hatcheries. An additional activity of the INNPA is sampling stranded sea turtle carcasses in order to collect different data, such as genetic information, population size and distribution.
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Purpose
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Supplemental information
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References
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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 |
prognum | Program number |
tag_id | PTT ID |
lc | Location class |
iq | Quality indicator |
dir1 | Dir 1 |
nb_mes | Number of messages received |
big_nb_mes | definition not provided |
best_level | Best signal strength in dB |
pass_duration | Pass duration in seconds |
nopc | Number Of Plausibility Checks successful (from 0-4) |
calcul_freq | Calculated frequency |
altitude | Altitude used for location calculation |
sensors | Sensors |
species | Species name |
project_id | STAT Project ID |
lc_filter | Parameters to location filtering |
speed_filter | Parameters to speed filtering |
distance_filter | Parameters to distance filtering |
topo_filter | Parameters to topo filtering |
time_filter | Parameters to time filtering |
angle_filter | Parameters to angle filtering |
life_stage | Life stage of the animal |
gender | Gender of the animal |
wetdry | Wet or dry |
wetdry_filter | Parameters to Wet or dry filterint |
obs_datetime | Date and time (local time zone) |
timezone_h | Time difference from UTC |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 1964 |
Seabirds | 0 |
Marine mammals | 0 |
Sea turtles | 4,229 |
Rays and sharks | 0 |
Other species | 0 |
Non spatial | 0 |
Non species | 0 |
Total | 4,229 |
Date, Begin | 2008-07-20 |
Date, End | 2012-07-02 |
Temporal prec. | 111111 |
Latitude | 21.82 - 47.07 |
Longitude | -50.49 - 87.91 |
Coord. prec. | 3 decimal digits |
Platform | Tag |
Data type | Telemetry location |
Tracklines | YES (ID: 1965) |
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Traveled (km) | 264,465 |
Travel hours | 81,771 |
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Contr. through | Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool |
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Registered | 2019-03-05 |
Updated | 2024-02-29 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
Permission required |
Shared with |
SWOT OBIS*
GBIF (via DOI)* * Aggregated summary |
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