Satellite tracking of rehabilitated juvenile loggerhead, green, and Kemp's ridley turtles in the northeastern USA

Nathan J. Robinson, Fundacion Oceanografic

Satellite tracking data for 31 rehabilitated loggerhead, green, and Kemp's ridley sea turtles tracked from the waters of New York, US.

The data have already been processed using a state-space model to provide daily location estimates.

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Tracking data were processed using a state-space model to provide daily location estimates at 12:00:00pm.

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
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
tag_id	Tag ID
date	Date
time	Time at local time zone (always 12:00:00pm)
lon	Longitude in decimal degrees
lat	Latitude in decimal degrees
species	Species name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_count	Number of animals (always 1) added by OBIS-SEAMAP
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP