Name: National Benthic Inventory
License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

The NOAA National Benthic Inventory (NBI) is a dynamic quantitative database on benthic species distributions obtained from studies conducted by NOAA and partnering institutions in estuarine and coastal-ocean areas of the United States.

Citation

NOAA (2018): National Benthic Inventory. v1. GBIF Secretariat. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nccos-coastalscience-products-web-ipt.azurewebsites.net/

Published

October 29, 2019 at 17:22

License

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL

https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=noaa_nbi

Archive

https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/archive.do?r=noaa_nbi

Contacts

Len Balthis
NOAA/NCCOS

Kirk Yedinak

Balthis

202,122

total submitted occurrences

201,610

accepted occurrences

3,809

taxa

2,591

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	202,122	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	2,786	1.4%
minimumDepthInMeters	2,786	1.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	14,896	7.4%
NO_DEPTH	2,786	1.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,740	0.9%
MARINE_UNSURE	932	0.5%
NOT_MARINE	512	0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	389	0.2%

National Benthic Inventory

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data