Purpose:
This cruise is part of an interdisciplinary project, in collaboration
with George Hunt (University of California at Irvine), Henri Weimerskirch
(CNRS-CEBC), and Nicolas Metzl (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), to understand
the way oceanographic variability influences the dispersion and community
structure of upper-trophic marine predators in the Southern Indian Ocean.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:
... The data presented here are marine bird and mammal
counts averaged into contiguous 3-km survey bins. The survey effort data are
available separately from the sighting information. This cruise, was funded and
supported by the following agencies: the U.S. National Science Foundation
Office of Polar Programs (http://www.nsf.gov/home/polar/), the French Polar
Institute (http://www.ifremer.fr/ifrtp/), and the French Ocean Indien Service
d'Observation (http://www.ipsl.jussieu.fr/services/Observations/fr/OISO.htm).
CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: ground condition
SPATIAL DATA ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Direct Spatial Reference: Vector
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: Entity point
Point and Vector Object Count: 4121
SPATIAL REFERENCE INFORMATION - GEODETIC MODEL
Horizontal Datum Name: D_WGS_1984
Ellipsoid Name: WGS_1984
Semi-major Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257224
NATIVE: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI
ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 
