UNCW Aerial Survey 1998-1999

William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

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Metadata in preparation, though fields description and taxonomic information of the species sighted are found in the metadata.
Please contact University of North Carolina at Wilmington for questions regarding the dataset.

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
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Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
dataset	Dataset name
lineno	Line number
site	Site name
date	Date of the sighting
time	Time of the sighting in local time
gmttime	Time of the sighting at UTC
waypoint	Waypoint
latitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
track	Track number
inbox	Inbox (Y or N)
heading	Heading
event	Event code
observer	Observer ID
sp_code	Species code. Some code are added by OBIS-SEAMAP.Original dataset included SP_Orgnl that shows species common name and other sightings such as ship,, trawler.
common	Species common name.
tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number defined by ITIS.
scientific	Species scientific name.
group	Group name the species belongs to.
rank	Rank of the species
sp_orgnl	Species name originally written
reliabilty	Reliabiliy
max	Maximum number of animals
min	Minimum number of animals
best	Best number of animals
calves	Number of calves
avoidance	Avoidance
altitude	Altitude in feet
visibility	Visibility
bss	Baufort sea state
cloud	Cloud cover
glareleft	Glare at left side
glareright	Glare at right side
photovideo	Indicate if a photo or video was taken
comments	Comments
excluded	Internal use
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
datetime_ini	Internal use
latitude_ini	Internal use
longitude_ini	Internal use