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

Archive

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=mbari

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Judith Connor
Monterey Bay Aquarium; Research Institute (MBARI)

176,673

total submitted occurrences

175,476

accepted occurrences

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	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%

Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) database

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data