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

60,172,777
occurrence records
99,313
taxa
80,486
species
505
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 1,265
0.0%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 18,465,953 644
30.7%
decimalLatitude 945,195 151
1.6%
decimalLongitude 945,217 158
1.6%
eventDate 710,578 488,804
2.0%
individualCount 15,990
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,180,295 641,365
14.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,039,632 632,068
14.4%
occurrenceStatus 2,511,430 1,495,500
6.7%
scientificName 60,103
0.1%
scientificNameID 3,614,155 607,998
7.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 8,665,960
14.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,333,959
7.2%
ON_LAND 4,204,617
7.0%
NO_COORD 945,446
1.6%
NOT_MARINE 745,509
1.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 544,767
0.9%
NO_MATCH 438,425
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 39,592
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 22,059
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%