TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
Flying seabird aerial surveys at the Rauer Group, Svenner Islands and Vestfold Hills, December 2017
The dataset contains boundaries of nest areas of surface nesting flying seabirds at numerous breeding sites across Prydz Bay, Antarctica. The sites are at islands in the Rauer Group, the Svenner Islands and two islands (Bluff Island and Gardner Island) off the Vestfold Hills. The boundary data were obtained from aerial photos of slopes where flying seabirds had been previously observed. The aerial photos were taken on 1 December 2017. Marcus Salton and Kim Kliska conducted the aerial photography and delineated the GIS boundaries representing the nesting areas.
The database of potential Adelie penguin breeding habitat as described by the metadata record 'Sites of potential habitat for breeding Adelie penguins in East Antarctica' ( http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_Potential_Habitats) was used to associate flying seabird nest areas to a particular island and to structure how the boundaries are stored. The Adelie penguin breeding site database has a unique identifying code for every island in East Antarctica, and the islands are aggregated into spatial sub-groups and then spatial groups. The file structure in which the boundaries are stored has a combination of ‘island’, ‘sub-group’ and ‘spatial group’ (or region) at the top level (eg VES_SG_10 contains all boundaries in spatial group VES (Vestfold Hills and islands) and sub-group 10). Within each sub-group folder are folders for each island where photos were taken (eg IS_72276 is Gardner Island in the VES_SG_10 group).
The data is comprised of:
(i) a polygon shapefile for each island on which flying bird nest areas were observed; and
(ii) a single polygon shapefile for each of Rauer Group, Svenner Islands and Vestfold Hills in which the polygons in (i) are combined.
The polygons in the shapefiles have a Type attribute with values ranging from A to E.
A = Nests present
B = Searched and no nests present
C = Nests or salt stains (the investigators were unable to decide whether what they were seeing was nests or salt stains)
D = Snow cover
E = Not searched
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- Flying seabird aerial surveys at the Rauer Group, Svenner Islands and Vestfold Hills, December 2017
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-12-01
- 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:10.26179/5b7f4ed665afe
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Other citation details
- Unreleased data
- Website
- https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_flying_seabirds_Rauer_Svenner_Vestfold_2017
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
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Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2017-12-01 2017-12-01
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
- 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 > Vestfold Hills
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > RAUER GROUP
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > SVENNER ISLANDS
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- The data is not yet publicly available.
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_4088_flying_seabirds_Rauer_Svenner_Vestfold_2017 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2021-12-01T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 1.7
- Distribution format
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- Images, Shapefiles
- OnLine resource
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- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for AAS project 4088
- OnLine resource
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Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset.
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2018-08-23 - record created by David Smith.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/AAS_4088_flying_seabirds_Rauer_Svenner_Vestfold_2017
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 6ed232dd-051a-49b8-9c4a-ea81b467afd4
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2021-11-17T12:22:29
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_4088_flying_seabirds_Rauer_Svenner_Vestfold_2017
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-08-23T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2018-08-23
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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