This dataset includes sightings, resightings and incidental sightings from Australian Antarctic Division voyages of whales in the Southern Ocean. These data will allow us to connect fine scale variability with regional and circum-Antarctic processes, and eventually to understand how the dynamics of the Antarctic ecosystem and environmental change might affect the recovery of whale populations.

Citation: See metadata record See Metadata record for details http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_915_2253

Published: May 13, 2021 at 05:46

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

Deborah Thiele
Australian National University

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

1,208

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
decimalLatitude	123		10.2%
decimalLongitude	123		10.2%
occurrenceStatus		4	0.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_COORD		123	10.2%
ON_LAND		17	1.4%

Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean cetacean program

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data