Standardized Data from the Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data Project from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD) is a Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) project led jointly by the Expert Groups on Birds and Marine Mammals and Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics, and endorsed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. The RAATD project team consolidated tracking data for multiple species of Antarctic meso- and top-predators to identify Areas of Ecological Significance. These datasets constitute the compiled tracking data from a large number of research groups that have worked in the Antarctic since the 1990s.


This metadata record pertains to the "standardized" version of the data files. These files contain position estimates as provided by the original data collectors (generally, raw Argos or GPS locations, or estimated GLS locations). Original data files have been converted to a common format and quality-checking applied, but have not been further filtered or interpolated.


Periods at the start or end of deployments were identified and discarded if there was evidence that location data during these periods did not represent the animals' at-sea movement. For example, tags may have been turned on early (thereby recording locations prior to their deployment on animals) or animals may have remained at the deployment site, e.g. the breeding colony, for an extended period at the start or end of the tag deployment. Some tracks also showed a marked deterioration in the frequency and quality (for PTTs) of location estimates near the end of a track. Such locations were visually identified based on maps of each track in conjunction with plots of location distance from deployment site against time. This information is captured in the location_to_keep column appended to each species’ data file (1 = keep, 0 = discard). The code used to trim the tracks can be found in the https://github.com/SCAR/RAATD repository.


This data set comprises one metadata csv file that describes all deployments, along with data csv files (17 files, one per species) containing the position data. For details of the file formats, consult the data paper.


The data are also available in a filtered version (see https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018) that have been processed using a state-space model in order to estimate locations at regular time intervals.

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Identification info

Alternate title
The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project
Date (Publication)
2020-03-18
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:10.1038/s41597-020-0406-x

Originator

Ropert-Coudert, Y., Van de Putte, A.P., Reisinger, R.R. et al.

Publisher

Sci Data

Principal investigator

ROPERT-COUDERT, YAN
Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chize, Station d’Ecologie de Chize-Universite de La Rochelle,
CNRS UMR7372,
79360 Villiers-en-Bois,
France
Villiers-en-Bois
79360
France

Principal investigator

VAN DE PUTTE, ANTON PIETER
BEDIC, OD Nature,
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences,
Vautierstraat 29,
B-1000 Brussels,
Belgium
Brussels
B-1000
Belgium

Principal investigator

REISINGER, RYAN R.
Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chize, Station d’Ecologie de Chize-Universite de La Rochelle,
CNRS UMR7372,
79360 Villiers-en-Bois,
France
Villiers-en-Bois
79360
France

Principal investigator

DANIS, BRUNO
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Marine Biology Lab, Campus du Solbosch - CP160/15 50 avenue F.D. Roosevelt,
B-1050 Bruxelles,
Belgium
Brussels
B-1050
Belgium

Principal investigator

BORNEMANN, HORST
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Polar- und Meeresforschung,
Am Handelshafen 12,
27570 Bremerhaven,
Germany
Bremerhaven
27570
Germany

Principal investigator

COSTA, DANIEL P.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Long Marine Lab,
130 McAllister Way,
Santa Cruz, CA 95060,
USA
Santa Cruz
CA 95060
USA

Principal investigator

CHARRASSIN, JEAN-BENOIT
Sorbonne Universités,
UPMC University, Paris 06, UMR 7159 CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN-IPSL,
75005 Paris,
France
Paris
75005
France

Principal investigator

HUCKSTADT, LUIS A.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Long Marine Lab,
130 McAllister Way,
Santa Cruz,
CA 95060,
USA.
Santa Cruz
CA 95060
USA

Principal investigator

JONSEN, IAN D.
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University,
Sydney,
NSW 2109,
Australia
Sydney
NSW 2109
Australia

Principal investigator

LEA, MARY-ANNE
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Principal investigator

THOMPSON, DAVID
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd,
301 Evans Bay Parade,
Wellington 6021,
New Zealand
Wellington
6021
New Zealand

Principal investigator

TORRES, LEIGH
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Marine Mammal Institute
Oregon State University
Hatfield Marine Science Center
2030 SE Marine Science Drive
Newport
Oregon
97365
USA

Principal investigator

TRATHAN, PHIL N
British Antarctic Survey
Madingley Rd
Cambridge
UK

Principal investigator

WOTHERSPOON, SIMON
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania,
20 Castray Esplanade,
Battery Point,
TAS 7004,
Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
TAS 7004
Australia

Principal investigator

RAYMOND, BEN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
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

Collaborator

VAN DE PUTTE, ANTON PIETER
BEDIC, OD Nature,
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences,
Vautierstraat 29,
B-1000 Brussels,
Belgium
Brussels
B-1000
Belgium

Collaborator

RAYMOND, BEN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Filtered

Purpose
These datasets and accompanying syntheses provide a greater understanding of fundamental ecosystem processes in the Southern Ocean, support modelling of predator distributions under future climate scenarios and create inputs that can be incorporated into decision making processes by management authorities.
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

Spatial resolution

Vertical sampling distance
0
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1991-01-01 2016-12-31
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > ANIMAL SCIENCE > ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
Keywords
  • BIOTELEMETRY
  • TRACKING
  • HABITAT USE
  • HOT SPOTS
  • AREAS OF ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE
  • ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
  • SEALS
  • GLOBAL LOCATION SENSOR
  • PLATFORM TERMINAL TRANSMITTERS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SATELLITES
  • GPS > Global Positioning System Satellites
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • AMD
  • CEOS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BOUVET ISLAND
  • OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > CROZET ISLANDS
  • OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > FALKLAND ISLANDS
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
  • OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > KERGUELEN ISLANDS
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > ROSS ISLAND
  • OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > MAWSON RESEARCH STATION
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > SCULLIN MONOLITH
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > SVARTHAMAREN
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > TERRE ADELIE
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > VESTFOLD HILLS
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > BECHERVAISE ISLAND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > CAMPBELL ISLAND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > COULMAN ISLAND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > DRESCHER INLET
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > FILCHNER TROUGH
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HUKURO COVE
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > ISLAS MALVINAS
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MCMURDO SOUND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > PETREL ISLAND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > SIGNY ISLAND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > UFS ISLAND

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
licence
Other constraints
These data are available for download from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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=SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Standardised 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
2020-03-18T00:00:00
Units of distribution
MB
Transfer size
418
Distribution format
  • csv

OnLine resource
GET DATA > DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Download the standardised tracking data

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset.

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2018-05-14 - record created by Anton van de Putte. 2020-03-18 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Standardised

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

VAN DE PUTTE, ANTON PIETER
BEDIC, OD Nature,
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences,
Vautierstraat 29,
B-1000 Brussels,
Belgium
Brussels
B-1000
Belgium

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
9c56acd8-d298-4f42-bbe6-1a5d5d30e6ee

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2020-03-18T11:28:25

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/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Standardised

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2018-05-13T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2020-03-18

Metadata standard

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

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