Argos location data for southern right whales satellite tagged off New Zealand and South Australia

Sixteen satellite tags were deployed on adult southern right whales. Six of these tags were deployed on adult southern right whales at the Auckland Islands (AI), New Zealand (50.5˚S 166.3˚E) between 24 July and 2 August 2009 and one tag was deployed on a sub-adult at Pirates Bay (PB), Tasmania (43.2˚S 147.9˚E) in October 2010. Nine tags were deployed on adult southern right whales at Head of the Bight (HOB), South Australia (31.5˚S 131.1˚E) on 6 and 7 September 2015. However, tag performance was highly variable. Three of the six tags deployed at the AI ceased transmitting before the individuals moved out of the winter aggregation area. No transmissions were received from a fourth tag until 39 days after deployment at which point the whale was south of Western Australia and although the tag transmitted for 22 days, there was insufficient data to interpolate a track suitable to be included in analyses. Of the nine tags deployed at HOB, three tags failed to transmit, and three tags ceased transmitting within six days.


Migratory movements from coastal calving grounds were successfully obtained for six individuals (AI=2, PB =1, HOB = 3) and detailed in the publication: Migratory movements of Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) from Australia and New Zealand.


This file includes the following data fields -

PTT: the unique Argos identifier assigned to each satellite tag

Datetime: the date and time in gmt with the format 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'

Longitude

Latitude

Quality: the Argos assigned location class (see paper for details)

Location: deployment location

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Argos location data for southern right whales satellite tagged off New Zealand and South Australia
Date (Publication)
2021-03-03
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.26179/5d37c13fe2ff4

Originator

Andrews-Goff, V., Double, M., Mckay, A. and Bailleul , F.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

ANDREWS-GOFF, VIRGINIA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Principal investigator

DOUBLE, MIKE
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Ausrtralia

Principal investigator

MCKAY, ALICE

Principal investigator

BAILLEUL, FRED
SARDI Aquatic Sciences
Primary Industries and Regions SA – PIRSA
Government of South Australia
Henley Beach
South Australia
5022
Australia

Collaborator

ANDREWS-GOFF, VIRGINIA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_2941_4101_SRW_tracks

Purpose
This dataset is comprised of the Argos locations generated by satellite tags attached to Southern right whales as described in the publication: Migratory movements of Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) from Australia and New Zealand.
Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Biota

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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2009-07-26 2014-11-03
Title
Satellite derived offshore migratory movements of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) from Australian and New Zealand wintering grounds.
Date (Publication)
2020
Citation identifier
15

Citation identifier
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231577

Author

Mackay AI, Bailleul F, Carroll EL, Andrews-Goff V, Baker CS, Bannister J, et al.
Name
PLoS ONE
Issue identification
5
Page
e0231577
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS > SPECIES MIGRATION
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > RANGE CHANGES
Keywords
  • SATELLITE TAG
  • SATELLITE TELEMTRY
  • ANIMAL MOVEMENT
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SATELLITES
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > AUCKLAND ISLANDS
  • CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA > HEAD OF BIGHT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
  • CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA > PIRATES BAY, TASMANIA
  • OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SUBTROPICAL FRONT

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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Other constraints
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Resource constraints

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Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_2941_4101_SRW_tracks when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
2021-03-03T00:00:00
Units of distribution
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Transfer size
55
Distribution format
  • Text

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Maintenance and update frequency
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Maintenance note
2019-07-23 - record created by Virginia Andrews-Goff. 2021-03-03 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/AAS_2941_4101_SRW_tracks

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

ANDREWS-GOFF, VIRGINIA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
57a05b0d-729f-4a19-825f-074d456fb355

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2021-03-03T15:59:29

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_2941_4101_SRW_tracks

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2019-07-23T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2021-03-03

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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