HRC SCC Aerial Shoreline Surveys February 2011

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Aerial surveys to monitor marine mammals and sea turtles (MM/ST) were conducted in
conjunction with two training events during the period February 16 to March 5, 2011, including:

(a) U.S. Navy Submarine Commander's Course (SCC) naval training event in the Hawaii Range
Complex (HRC) on the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) instrumented range between Kauai
and Niihau, Hawaii; and

(b) Undersea Warfare Exercise (USWEX) training event south of Oahu
and Molokai.
Surveys in support of the SCC event occurred on 4 consecutive days from
February 16 to 19, 2011, in waters adjoining Kauai and Niihau where the missile destroyer (DDG) and other ships were operating, followed by shoreline surveys of Kauai and Niihau on 2 separate days thereafter: February 24 and 26, 2011.
This was followed by shoreline surveys of the Four
Islands region in support of the USWEX event on 2 separate days, February 28 and March 5, 2011. The survey methods and sampling design were submitted and approved in advance, per the statement of work (SOW), to the Navy Technical Representative (NTR) and followed previously established protocol (Mobley and Milette 2010; Smultea et al. 2009a,b).

not provided

This dataset includes sightings during the SCC shoreline surveys.


Sightings during the ship-follow surveys are available:
HRC SCC Aerial-based Shp-follow Surveys February 2011


Sightings during the transect surveys are available:
HRC SCC Aerial-based Transect Surveys February 2011


Data for the USWEX shoreline surveys are available:

HRC USWEX Aerial-based Shoreline Surveys February and March 2011

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

Overview

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
oid	definition not provided
sighting_id	Sighting ID
obs_date	Date of the sighting (local time zone)
obs_time	Time of the sighting (local time zone)
sp_obs	Species name recorded
sp_tsn	ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
latitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
obs_count	Best estimate of number of animals
grp_high	High estimate of number of animals (not recorded in this dataset)
grp_low	Low estimate of number of animals (not recorded in this dataset)
calves	Number of calves
beaufort	Beaufort Sea State (not recorded in this dataset)
vert_angle	Vertical angle (not recorded in this dataset)
bearing	Bearing (°)
behavior	Behavioral summary
geom	definition not provided