Dataset

Offshore reference stations, Norwegian/Barents Sea

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The original dataset objective is the sampling of reference stations for large-scale annual surveys of petroleum installations.

Citation
The Norwegian Oil Industry Association, 2002: Offshore reference stations, Norwegian/Barents Sea. The Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF), Akvaplan-niva and Det Norske Veritas, Norway
Published
September 17, 2025 at 08:30
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Contacts

The Norwegian Oil Industry Association
The Norwegian Oil Industry Association

Det Norske Veritas
Det Norske Veritas

Sabine Cochrane

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Siri Mordal Bakke

Per Johannessen

Bente Jarandsen

Tor Jensen

46,377
total submitted occurrences
46,019
accepted occurrences
898
taxa
872
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 46,377
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 46,377
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,220
2.6%
scientificNameID 358
0.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,220
2.6%
ON_LAND 583
1.3%
NO_MATCH 358
0.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data