The National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database records reported sightings of whales and dolphins in Australian waters and maintains details of stranding events around the Australian coastline. This resource currently only show the sighting records.

Citation

See metadata record http://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/DB_Cetaceans_NSSD

Published

January 28, 2015 at 05:30

First registration

June 24, 2020 at 15:01

URL

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=nssd

Archive

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=nssd

Contacts

Ben Raymond
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Tom Kaveney

2,176

total submitted occurrences

2,054

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
decimalLatitude	108		5.0%
decimalLongitude	109	1	5.1%
eventDate	2,176		100.0%
occurrenceStatus	2,176		100.0%
scientificNameID	2,176		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	193	8.9%
NO_COORD	110	5.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	101	4.6%
NO_MATCH	11	0.5%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	1	0.0%
ZERO_COORD	1	0.0%

National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data