Animal Tracking at Heard Island 2003/2004 - ARGOS data

A major goal of a research expedition by the Australian Antarctic Division over the summer of (2003/04) in the Southern Ocean off Heard Island was to answer some of the questions needed to determine what level of exploitation of Southern Ocean fisheries is sustainable. The use of novel equipment, cutting edge technology and some adept logistical co-ordination allowed the Aurora Australis, on the Southern Ocean, to catch the prey of the predators of Heard Island.


This work was accomplished by placing satellite trackers on animals at Heard Island, and then, using the ARGOS system, monitoring their activities in the Southern Ocean around the island. The Aurora Australis assisted in the monitoring and tracking of the animals by searching the areas the animals were foraging for prey species.


The animals tracked in this experiment were:


Light-mantled sooty albatrosses

black-browed albatrosses

king penguins

macaroni penguins

Antarctic fur seals


The columns in this data file are:


individual_id - the identifier of the individual animal

species - the species name of that animal

pttid - the identifier of the PTT tracker deployed on that animal

deployment_longitude - the longitude at which the tracker was deployed

deployment_latitude - the latitude at which the tracker was deployed

observation_date - the date (ISO8601 format) of the position observation

year, month, day, time, time_zone - as per the observation_date, but in separate columns

locationclass - the ARGOS location class of the position (see http://www.argos-system.org/manual/3-location/34_location_classes.htm; value -3 corresponds to a "Z" class, value -2 to "B", value -1 to "A")

latitude - the latitude of the position observation

longitude - the longitude of the position observation

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Identification info

Alternate title
Animal Tracking at Heard Island 2003/2004 - ARGOS data
Date (Publication)
2010-11-15
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:10.4225/15/55C9581205236

Originator

Gales, N., Goldsworthy, S., Hindell, M.A., Kirkwood, R., Lawton, K., and Wienecke, B.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

GALES, NICK
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Principal investigator

GOLDSWORTHY, SIMON
South Australia
Australia

Principal investigator

HINDELL, MARK A.
ANTARCTIC WILDLIFE R'SRCH UNIT
Department of Zoology
University of Tasmania
GPO BOX 252-05
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Principal investigator

KIRKWOOD, ROGER

Principal investigator

LAWTON, KIERAN
Aspect Ecology
20 Menuggana Road
Fern Tree
Tasmania
7054
Australia

Principal investigator

WIENECKE, BARBARA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

GALES, NICK
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/HI_animaltracks_ARGOS

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
  • Biota
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
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W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2003-12-15 2004-02-13
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ISLANDS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES PREDATION
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > USE/FEEDING HABITATS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > RANGE CHANGES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES
Keywords
  • ANTARCTIC FUR SEAL
  • ARGOS
  • AURORA AUSTRALIS
  • BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS
  • DATE AND TIME
  • HEARD ISLAND
  • KING PENGUIN
  • LATITUDE
  • LIGHT MANTLED SOOTY ALBATROSS
  • LONGITUDE
  • MACARONI PENGUIN
  • PTT
  • SATELLITE TRACKS
  • SEX
  • SPECIES
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/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

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This metadata record is publicly available.

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These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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licence
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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=HI_animaltracks_ARGOS when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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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
2010-11-15T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
31
Distribution format
  • csv

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2008-04-08 - record updated by Dave Connell 2009-11-18 - record updated by Dave Watts to correct a URL notation. 2010-11-15 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2013-12-11 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct the personnel. 2015-08-11 - record updated by Dave Connell at the request of Ben Raymond. 2015-08-12 - record updated by Dave Connell at the request of Ben Raymond to alter personnel details.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/HI_animaltracks_ARGOS

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

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Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
3e7daf1c-cce8-4d1e-b2f7-27f523ce303b

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-29T19:46:42

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/HI_animaltracks_ARGOS

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2004-08-04T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-04-26

Metadata standard

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

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