UNCW Right Whale Aerial Survey 05-06

William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Aerial surveys were flown in parallel lines from the South Carolina/North Carolina border to the south end of Assateague Island, Virginia, United States from October 2005 to April 2006. All large whale, small cetaceans, sea turtles and large fish, and ship sightings were recorded. Surveys were conducted in Beaufort sea states of 5 or under and in clear weather conditions. Photos of all large whales exist in the VAB LAB photo data base at University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). UNCW houses a data base that now extends from 1998 to 2006 for aerial surveys conducted in the mid-Atlantic and southeast Atlantic bight.

To conduct systematic aerial surveys for large whales, specifically targeting right whales, during the fall, winter and spring off North Carolina and Virginia, United States.

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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
id	Record id
date	Date of observation
time	Time of the date
waypoint
lat	Latitude in decimal degree
long	longitude in decimal degree
event
heading
track
obsrv
alt
visibility
bss
cloud
glarel
glarer
angle
sightcue
species
common
tsn
scientific
group_
rank
reliabilit
minnum
maxnum
best	Best estimate of the number of adults
calves	Number of calves in the group
avoid
pho_vid
comments
oid