MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S027
OBIS
Discover marine observations available through OBIS, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- Ocean Biodiversity Information System / IOC
- Role
- Marine biodiversity aggregator
- Platforms
- Surveys; samples; imagery; telemetry; many biological platforms
- Observed variables
- Species occurrence; abundance/event data; eDNA/DNA extensions; measurements/facts including environmental values where submitted
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Period
- Dataset-dependent; historical to present
- Depth coverage
- Minimum/maximum depth fields where provided; occurrence/event depth
- QC and data mode
- OBIS QC pipeline + provider QC
- Access method
- Small subsets: Mapper; programmatic: API/robis; large-scale app index: download GeoParquet and query locally with DuckDB
- Indexed download targets
- 6
Canonical parameters
- Biomass
biomass - Individual count
individual_count - Occurrence status
occurrence_status - Organism quantity
organism_quantity - Observation depth
sample_depth - Taxon occurrence
taxon_occurrence
Discovery and access
For your app, local GeoParquet indexing is far better than repeatedly hitting the OBIS API.