Name: Acoustic detections from R/V Song of the Whale during the winter 2019 MAPS survey (NMFS permit 14809)
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Original provider: Marine Conservation Research Dataset credits: Oliver Boisseau, Marine Conservation Research International Abstract: The dataset contains sperm whale acoustic detections made during the MAPS winter cruise in Jan/Feb 2019 (NMFS permit 14809). Each datapoint represents an acoustic detection of an individual sperm whale.

Citation

Boisseau, O. 2020. Acoustic detections from R/V Song of the Whale during the winter 2019 MAPS survey (NMFS permit 14809). Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/8f8fac5e.

Published

October 08, 2025 at 12:57

First registration

April 08, 2020 at 21:14

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2055

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_2055

Contacts

Oliver Boisseau
Song of the Whale team, MCR International

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

180

total submitted occurrences

180

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		180	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	180		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	180		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		180	100.0%

Acoustic detections from R/V Song of the Whale during the winter 2019 MAPS survey (NMFS permit 14809)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data