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Satellite tracked GPS locations of two southern right whales tagged in South Georgia waters from January to September 2020
This dataset summarises the raw GPS locations obtained by satellite tracking of two southern right whales tagged at South Georgia island on 28th January 2020. One whale, genetically identified as a female, was tracked for 117 days (4,860 tag locations provided) and travelled ~5818km including a short period of time at the ice edge. The second whale, genetically identified as a male, was tracked for 238 days (8,492 tag locations provided) and travelled ~9,885km, including migration through the national waters of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
Funding:
EU BEST 2.0 Medium Grant 1594, DARWIN PLUS award DPLUS057 and funding from the South Georgia Heritage Trust and Friends of South Georgia Island.
Simple
- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01799
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-12-05
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01799
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Migratory Rates/Routes
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- South Georgia
- Southern right whale
- cetacean
- migration
- tracking
- Use limitation
- This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence v3 (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/).
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence v3 (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/).
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 2020-01-28
- End date
- 2020-09-20
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- GET DATA ( http )
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- The data are provided here as raw Argos locations with no quality control performed. Some rows are missing information because sometimes not all information is sent to the satellite, and it may take several messages to convey all of the information. Some columns are empty because the Argos output columns are standard for all tag types, and data outputs vary depending on the sensors associated with the tag in question. See READ_ME for full data description.
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01799 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-12-05
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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