Dataset

Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) database

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The original dataset, provided by OBIS-USA, contains all distribution records. The dataset in OBIS Seamap is a subset of the original dataset, only containing marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records.

Citation: Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Linda Kuhnz, Lonny Lundsten, Kyra Schlining, Susan von Thun, (2002) Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) database, Year 2000, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California USA, Database, www.mbari.org/vars

URL: http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=mbari

176,673
occurrence records
676
taxa
218
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 176,673
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 176,673
100.0%
scientificNameID 2,417 120
1.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,450
0.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,335
0.8%
NO_MATCH 1,197
0.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 3
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data