Antarctic OBIS

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The OBIS node for Antarctica is run by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) under the aegis of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

Contacts

Anton Van de Putte
avandeputte@naturalsciences.be

Yi Ming Gan
ymgan@naturalsciences.be

Charlie Plasman
charlieplasman99@gmail.com

Pablo Deschepper
pdeschepper@naturalsciences.be

3,043,318
occurrence records
13,734
taxa
11,325
species
154
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,993,836
98.4%
decimalLatitude 17,956 1,867
0.7%
decimalLongitude 17,368 2,300
0.6%
eventDate 242,000 8,052
8.2%
individualCount 289
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,729,946 2,114
89.8%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,837,046 1,907
93.3%
occurrenceStatus 2,628,136 40,190
87.7%
scientificName 8,683
0.3%
scientificNameID 125,864 5,102
4.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,713,093
89.1%
ON_LAND 169,705
5.6%
NO_MATCH 22,220
0.7%
NO_COORD 20,364
0.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 19,343
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 13,946
0.5%
NOT_MARINE 8,383
0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 3,515
0.1%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 2,300
0.1%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 1,867
0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 1,701
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 1,384
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1,333
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,332
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 1,015
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 185
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 136
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 5
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 3
0.0%