Marine Mammal Observations by Greenpeace

Dataset of marine mammal observations made in the Southern Ocean from late 1998 to early 2000.

Further information about the data are included in a word document in the download.

The data are held in excel spreadsheets. The word document mentioned above lists the column headings for the excel spreadsheets.

The fields in this dataset are:

date

time

species

Number of animals

Distance

Bearing

Heading

Initial Cue

Behaviour

Latitude

Longitude

Effort status

Notes

Wind speed

Wind direction

Actual wind speed

Actual wind direction

Sea State

Cloud cover

Visibility

Boat speed

Boat course

Speed made good

Course made good

Temperature

Wave Height

Weather

Depth

Swell height

More notes

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Marine Mammal Observations by Greenpeace
Date (Publication)
2002-11-15
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:10.26179/5c539854c9450

Originator

De Boer, M.N.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

DE BOER, MARIJKE NITA
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

DE BOER, MARIJKE NITA
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/marine_mammal_obs

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
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1998-12-28 2000-01-24
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC
Keywords
  • BEARING
  • BOAT COURSE
  • CLOUD COVER
  • BEHAVIOUR
  • BOAT SPEED
  • DEPTH
  • DATE
  • DISTANCE
  • DOLPHIN
  • EFFORT STATUS
  • HEADING
  • INITIAL CUE
  • LONGITUDE
  • LATITUDE
  • MARINE
  • NUMBER
  • MAMMAL
  • PORPOISE
  • SEA STATE
  • SEAL
  • SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • SWELL HEIGHT
  • SPECIES
  • TIME
  • TEMPERATURE
  • WAVE HEIGHT
  • VISIBILITY
  • WEATHER
  • WHALE
  • WIND DIRECTION
  • WIND SPEED
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SHIPS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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
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=marine_mammal_obs 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
2002-11-15T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
293
Distribution format
  • excel

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download page for the data

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2019-02-01 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/marine_mammal_obs

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

DE BOER, MARIJKE NITA
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
a69585a9-efba-4855-b59a-1b05d77a5534

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2019-02-01T11:46:47

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/marine_mammal_obs

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2001-04-02T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2019-02-01

Metadata standard

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

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