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Satellite tracks of humpback whales generated from tag deployments during the Antarctic Whale Expedition (AWE) 2009/10
Satellite derived tracks of humpback whales tagged on their Antarctic feeding grounds.
Data can be found here: https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/argos/display_campaign.cfm?campaign_id=83
Satellite tags were deployed on adult humpback whales with a modified version of the Air Rocket Transmitter System (ARTS, Restech) and a purpose-designed projectile carrier at a pressure of 7.5 – 10 bar. A custom-designed, 80mm anchor section is attached to a stainless steel cylindrical housing containing a location-only transmitter (SPOT-5 by Wildlife Computers, Redmond, Washington, USA and Kiwisat 202 Cricket by Sirtrack, Havelock North, New Zealand). This superseded anchor design resulted in the anchor section disarticulating upon deployment in order to achieve improved tag retention times while minimising impact. The tags were sterilised with ethylene oxide prior to deployment and implanted up to 290mm into the skin, blubber, interfacial layers and outer muscle mass of the whale. Tags were programmed to transmit to the Argos satellite system at various duty cycles and repetition rates for a maximum of 720 transmissions per day. These transmissions are relayed to processing centres which calculate the transmitter’s location by measuring the Doppler Effect on transmission frequency.
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- Satellite tracks of humpback whales generated from tag deployments during the Antarctic Whale Expedition (AWE) 2009/10
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-06-06
- Edition
- 1
- Citation identifier
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Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.4225/15/5ae67dbd96e55
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2010-02-21 2010-05-31
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
- Keywords
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- HUMPBACK WHALE
- ANIMAL MOVEMENT
- SATELLITE TAG
- IWC SORP
- ANTARCTIC WHALE EXPEDITION (AWE)
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- R/V TANGAROA
- SATELLITES
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- AMD
- CEOS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- These data are publicly available for download from the ARGOS database.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- 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_humpback_whale_satellite_tracks_AWE_2010 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2019-06-06T00:00:00
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
Access the data in the ARGOS database
- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for AAS project AAS_2941
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset.
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2018-04-30 - record created by Virginia Andrews-Goff. 2019-06-06 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/AAS_2941_humpback_whale_satellite_tracks_AWE_2010
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
- Title
- Parent Metadata Record
- Citation identifier
- ASAC_2941
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- b8e12b4f-3597-43d7-b251-15ba2f036906
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2019-06-06T10:06:31
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_2941_humpback_whale_satellite_tracks_AWE_2010
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-04-30T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2019-06-06
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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