MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S028
OBIS-SEAMAP
Discover marine observations available through OBIS-SEAMAP, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- Duke Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab
- Role
- Marine megafauna observations + effort/telemetry
- Platforms
- Ships; aircraft; telemetry tags; photo-ID/survey platforms
- Observed variables
- Marine mammal; seabird; sea turtle observations; telemetry; survey effort; selected in-situ context
- Spatial coverage
- Global, dataset-dependent
- Period
- Dataset-dependent; 2002-present portal with older contributed observations
- Depth coverage
- Mostly surface occurrence/telemetry; dive/depth may be dataset-specific
- QC and data mode
- Provider + portal standardization
- Access method
- Use Advanced Search or dataset/species pages; agree to terms; download visible/subset/full data
- Indexed download targets
- 2
Canonical parameters
- Individual count
individual_count - Taxon occurrence
taxon_occurrence
Discovery and access
Effort tracks are crucial for absence/detection modeling; index sharing policy because not every visible record is downloadable.