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Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The ‘Logger’ data entry system was developed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and is a flexible system to record information during a voyage. All events occurring during daylight operations such as sightings, biopsy attempts and sonobuoy deployments were recorded in a customized data entry program Logger along with weather and effort data. The logger access database contains all data collected throughout theNZ/Aus Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015 related to: Biopsy events (date/time in UTC, success, sample number, reaction, attempts, dart recovery, notes) Comments - time stamped (UTC) with GPS index providing additional detail Observer effort (effort status, event, number of observers and locations, ship guide and data logger) Environmental observations (sightability, sea state, swell, weather, cloud cover, visibility, intensity, glare, ice, sea surface temperature) GPS data - time indexed NMEA feed, also containing heading and ship speed Lookup - table containing topic codes describing the codes that appear in all other tables Cetacean sightings and resightings (date/time in UTC), sighting number, sighting platform, estimate distance, binocular reticles, angle, species, sighting cue, heading, estimate of number of individuals, observer of sighting, behaviour, pod compaction, comments) Sonobuoy deployments (date/time in UTC, sonobuoy number, notes)

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Title Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4ec8f646-64d1-43a1-961c-108ca2ec8a60
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 29/01/2015 - 11/03/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/visual-observations-recorded-during-the-new-zealand-australian-antarctic-ecosystems-voyage-2015