IMOS - AATAMS Facility Satellite Relay Tagging Program - Satellite tracking of pinnipeds - Delayed mode data, 2007-2017
Latest version published by CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere on Jul 29, 2017
The Australian Animal Tracking And Monitoring System (AATAMS) is a coordinated marine animal tagging project. Satellite Relay Data Loggers (SRDL) (most with CTDs, and some also with fluorometers) are used to explore how marine mammal behaviour relates to their oceanic environment. Loggers developed at the University of St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit transmit data in near real time via the Argo satellite system. The Satellite Relay Data Loggers are deployed on marine mammals, including Elephant Seals, Weddell Seals, Australian Fur Seals, Australian Sea Lions, New Zealand Fur Seals. Data parameters measured by the instruments include time, conductivity (salinity), temperature, speed, fluorescence (available in the future) and depth. Data is being collected in the Southern Ocean, the Great Australian Bight, and off the South-East Coast of Australia.
This dataset has excluded the data from Antarctic waters as it is expected that data would be published via the OBIS Antarctic node AntBIF.
Each species has been linked to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS https://www.marinespecies.org).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 109,727 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 109,727 records in English (3 MB) - Update frequency: not planned |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (9 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (8 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
The citation in a list of references is: "IMOS [year-of-data-download], [Title], [data-access-URL], accessed [date-of-access]." Any users of IMOS data are required to clearly acknowledge the source of the material derived from IMOS in the format: "Data was sourced from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is a national collaborative research infrastructure, supported by the Australian Government." If relevant, also credit other organisations involved in collection of this particular datastream (as listed in 'credit' in the metadata record).
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Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Great Australia Bight, south coast of Western Australia and waters off New South Wales, Australia.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-40.602, 118.1], North East [-32.8, 159.6] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Family | Otariidae (Seals) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2007-03-26 / 2014-11-01 |
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Sampling Methods
Satellite Relay Data Loggers (SRDL) (most with CTDs, and some also with fluorometers) are used to explore how marine mammal behaviour relates to their oceanic environment.
| Study Extent | Data is being collected in the Southern Ocean, the Great Australian Bight, and off the South-East Coast of Australia. |
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| Quality Control | AATAMS make all satellite logger data available in near real time, with no Quality Control applied to the data before release. Data available in near real time is a subset of the full dataset collected by the satellite loggers. |
Method step description:
- Loggers developed at the University of St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit transmit data in near real time via the Argo satellite system.
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ogc-act.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=imos_aatams |
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