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JAX MAVEX Aerial Monitoring 2012
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Dataset credit
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Dana Spontak |
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. |
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| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Spontak, D. 2012. JAX MAVEX Aerial Monitoring 2012. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/875) 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.
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Abstract
Aerial marine species monitoring occurred on 28 February and 29 February 2012 for a Maverick Missile Exercise (MAVEX) training event off the eastern coast of Florida within the U.S. Navy’s Missile Laser Training Range (MLTR).
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Purpose
N/A
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Supplemental information
[2014-07-02] The unit of Distance field was wrong in the metadata. It is in meters.
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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.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".
Attributes in dataset
| Attribute (table column) | Description |
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| oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
| event | Event |
| sighting_no | Sighting No. |
| obs_date | Observation date |
| species | Species name |
| sp_obs | Species name recorded |
| sp_tsn | ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number assigned by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| obs_count | Group size - best |
| count_high | Group size - high |
| count_low | Group size - low |
| calves | Number of calves |
| obs_time | Start time (local time zone) |
| stop_time | Stop time (local time zone) |
| beaufort | Beaufort Sea State |
| latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
| longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
| vert_angle | Vertical angle in degrees |
| distance | Distance off Track in meters |
| heading | Heading in degrees |
| bottom_depth | Bottom Depth (m) |
| behavior | Behavioral Summary |
| navy_ship | Navy Ship Present (Yes/No) |
| exercise | Pre/During/Post Exercise |
| bearing_angle | Bearing Angle |
| geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 875 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 14 |
| Sea turtles | 83 |
| Rays and sharks | 3 |
| Other species | 20 |
| Non spatial | 1 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 121 |
| Date, Begin | 2012-02-28 |
| Date, End | 2012-02-29 |
| Temporal prec. | 111110 |
| Latitude | 30.31 - 31.02 |
| Longitude | -81.33 - -80.10 |
| Coord. prec. | 3 decimal digits |
| Platform | Plane |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Traveled (km) | 0 |
| 0 |
| Contr. through | Navy |
| Registered | 2012-09-17 |
| Updated | 2020-10-01 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
| Shared with |
OBIS
GBIF (via DOI) |
| See metadata in static HTML |
| See metadata in FGDC XML |
| See download history / statistics |
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