OBIS USA

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Ocean Biodiversity Information System USA (OBIS-USA) brings together marine biological observation data – recorded observations of identifiable marine species at a known time and place, collected primarily from U.S. Waters or with U.S. funding.

Mark Wiltermuth
mwiltermuth@usgs.gov

Mathew Biddle
mathew.biddle@noaa.gov

60,174,300
occurrence records
99,466
taxa
80,486
species
507
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 1,265
0.0%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 18,467,061 644
30.7%
decimalLatitude 946,274 151
1.6%
decimalLongitude 946,296 158
1.6%
eventDate 711,035 488,804
2.0%
individualCount 15,990
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,181,386 641,365
14.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,040,624 632,068
14.4%
occurrenceStatus 2,512,635 1,495,500
6.7%
scientificName 60,100
0.1%
scientificNameID 3,615,360 607,998
7.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 8,666,952
14.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,334,037
7.2%
ON_LAND 4,204,720
7.0%
NO_COORD 946,525
1.6%
NOT_MARINE 745,895
1.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 544,770
0.9%
NO_MATCH 438,615
0.7%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 83,112
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 44,689
0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 44,093
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 39,594
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 22,057
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 17,124
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 1,470
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1,206
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 158
0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 151
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 89
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 54
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 42
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 36
0.0%