Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015
The ‘Logger’ data entry system was developed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and is a flexible system to record information during a voyage. All events occurring during daylight operations such as sightings, biopsy attempts and sonobuoy deployments were recorded in a customized data entry program Logger along with weather and effort data.
The logger access database contains all data collected throughout theNZ/Aus Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015 related to:
Biopsy events (date/time in UTC, success, sample number, reaction, attempts, dart recovery, notes)
Comments - time stamped (UTC) with GPS index providing additional detail
Observer effort (effort status, event, number of observers and locations, ship guide and data logger)
Environmental observations (sightability, sea state, swell, weather, cloud cover, visibility, intensity, glare, ice, sea surface temperature)
GPS data - time indexed NMEA feed, also containing heading and ship speed
Lookup - table containing topic codes describing the codes that appear in all other tables
Cetacean sightings and resightings (date/time in UTC), sighting number, sighting platform, estimate distance, binocular reticles, angle, species, sighting cue, heading, estimate of number of individuals, observer of sighting, behaviour, pod compaction, comments)
Sonobuoy deployments (date/time in UTC, sonobuoy number, notes)
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-09-14
- 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:10.4225/15/59b9fe0ea0dcd
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Purpose
- Systematic sightings data including quantified effort, environmental co-variates that may affect detection probability and initial locations relative to the vessel of all sightings were collected whenever possible. These data have the potential to contribute to analyses of the following: (i) Distribution patterns and localised density of other baleen whale species (humpback, fin and minke whales) with respect to aggregations of blue whales and other co-variates such as distance from ice edge; (ii) Blue whales that were seen but not heard provide data on acoustic detection probability; (iii) Spatial scale and density of blue whales within aggregations including comparisons with acoustic data and average group size; and (iv) Comparisons of observed locations of fin and humpback whales with bearings of vocalisations heard on sonobuoys to enable better descriptions of the acoustic repertoire of these species in the Southern Ocean.
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2015-01-29 2015-03-11
- Title
- Cruise report on blue whale research from the NZ/Aus Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015 of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership.
- Date (Publication)
- 2015
- Citation identifier
- SC/66a/SH7
Author
Publisher
- Title
- Cruise report of the 2013 Antarctic blue whale voyage of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership.
- Date (Publication)
- 2013
- Citation identifier
- SC/65a/SH21
Author
- Other citation details
- Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.
- Title
- Long-range acoustic tracking of Antarctic blue whales.
- Date (Publication)
- 2013
- Citation identifier
- SC/65a/SH1
Author
- Other citation details
- Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.
- Title
- Voyage Report TAN1502 New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage.
- Date (Publication)
- 2015
- Citation identifier
- WLG2015-21
Author
- Other citation details
- Prepared for Antarctica New Zealand, Ministry for Primary Industries, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- Title
- Validating the reliability of passive acoustic localisation: a novel method for encountering rare and remote Antarctic blue whales.
- Date (Publication)
- 2015
- Citation identifier
- 26
Author
- Name
- Endangered Species Research
- Page
- 257-269
- Title
- Software for the localisation of baleen whale calls using DIFAR sonobuoys: PAMGuard DIFAR
- Date (Publication)
- 2014
- Citation identifier
- SC/65b/SH7
Author
- Other citation details
- Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee
- Title
- Photo-identification of Antarctic blue whales during the SORP Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage 2013.
- Date (Publication)
- 2013
- Citation identifier
- SC/65a/SH
Author
- Other citation details
- Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.
- Title
- Photo-identification of Antarctic blue whales during the NZ-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015.
- Date (Publication)
- 2015
- Citation identifier
- SC/65a/SH
Author
- Other citation details
- Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS
- Keywords
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- ANTARCTIC BLUE WHALE VOYAGE
- CETACEAN VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
- LOGGER DATABASE
- MARK RECAPTURE
- BLUE WHALE
- IWC SORP
- R/V TANGAROA
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- BINOCULAR > BINOCULAR
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- SHIPS
- R/V TANGAROA
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- AMD
- CEOS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > ROSS SEA
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 provided URL.
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 dataset has been collected under the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) Southern Ocean Research Partnership (SORP). The IWC-SORP ethos is one of open collaboration, communication and data sharing. The Data User will acknowledge the use of the IWC SORP dataset by the following statement: Data provided by the International Whaling Commission’s Southern Ocean Research Partnership were all based upon non-lethal samples collected under a protocol approved by the Australian Antarctic Program Animal Ethics Committee (AAPAEC). These data were provided by the Partnership for the purpose of collaborative investigation. 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_4102_Visobs2015 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2017-09-14T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 5.7
- Distribution format
-
- Access
- OnLine resource
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Download the dataset
- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for AAS project 4102
- 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
- 2017-09-13 - record created by Virginia Andrews-Goff.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/AAS_4102_Visobs2015
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
- Title
- Parent Metadata Record
- Citation identifier
- AAS_4102_2015_New_Zealand_Australia_Antarctic_Ecosystems_Voyage
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 11112ceb-1d06-4fbe-a1fe-8342679a8459
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_4102_Visobs2015
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2017-09-13T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2017-09-13
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile