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Canada Maritimes Regional Cetacean Sightings (OBIS Canada)
Entry ID:
obis.marwhale
Summary
Abstract:
This is an OBIS formatted version of the Canadian government's Department of Fisheries and Oceans Maritimes Region database for visual sightings of cetaceans (e.g. whales, dolphins and porpoises) and other large pelagic animals (e.g. fish and turtles) mostly from the Scotian Shelf/Bay of Fundy portions of Canada's east coast. The collectors of these sightings are diverse (e.g. NGO researchers, ...
 Purpose: These data are for display on the OBIS portal and associated mapping programs and for download to personal computers for ad-hoc end-user analysis. OBIS Schema concepts implemented in this particular data set are: RES_NAME, DATELASTMODIFIED, INSTITUTIONCODE, COLLECTIONCODE, BASISOFRECORD, KINGDOM, GENUS, SPECIES, COLLECTOR, YEARCOLLECTED, MONTHCOLLECTED, DAYCOLLECTED, TIMEOFDAY, TIMEZONE, JULIANDAY, LONGITUDE, LATITUDE, CATALOGNUMBER, SCIENTIFICNAME, SCIENTIFICNAMEAUTHOR, OBSERVEDINDIVIDUALCOUNT, PHYLUM, CLASS, ORDER, FAMILY, NOTES (TSN: value;SEASTATE: value; VISIBILITY: value; event_comments) For OBIS Schema concept details see http://v2.iobis.org/tech/provider/
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator:
K. Smedbol, J. Gale, L. Bajona
Dataset Title:
Canada Maritimes Regional Cetacean Sightings
Dataset Series Name:
Fisheries and Oceans, Canada - Digital Collections, OBIS Canada
Dataset Release Date:
2005
Dataset Release Place:
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dataset Publisher:
OBIS Canada
Version:
2
Data Presentation Form:
Digital
Other Citation Details:
Originating database created/maintained at St. Andrews Biological Station, New Brunswick
Parent DIF
This data set description is a member of a collection. The
collection is described in
Canada_DFO_MARWHALE Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
1966-01-01
Science Keywords
Platform
Instrument
Quality
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Data Set Progress
IN WORK
Originating Center
Data Center
Distribution
Distribution Media:
CD-Rom
Personnel
Role:
DIF AUTHOR
Phone:
+39 06 94180777
Fax:
+39 06 94180292
Email:
eohelp at esa.int
Contact Address:
ESA/ESRIN
Via G. Galilei
City:
Frascati
Postal Code:
00044
Country:
Italy
Creation and Review Dates
Last DIF Revision Date:
2009-04-20
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