Name: Acoustic detections from R/V Song of the Whale during the spring 2019 MAPS survey (NMFS permit 14809)
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Original provider: Marine Conservation Research Dataset credits: Oliver Boisseau, Marine Conservation Research International Abstract: The dataset contains sperm whale acoustic detections made during the MAPS spring cruise in Apr/May 2019 (NMFS permit 14809). Each datapoint represents an acoustic detection of an individual sperm whale.

Citation: Boisseau, O. 2020. Acoustic detections from R/V Song of the Whale during the spring 2019 MAPS survey (NMFS permit 14809). Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/46f8b3e8.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 12:57

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URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2056

Contacts:

Oliver Boisseau
Song of the Whale team, MCR International

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

221

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		221	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	221		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	221		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		221	100.0%

Acoustic detections from R/V Song of the Whale during the spring 2019 MAPS survey (NMFS permit 14809)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data