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SCANS II cetacean sightings on tracker platform of vessel surveys 2005 Citation Hammond, P.S., Macleod, K., Berggren, P., Borchers, D.L., Burt, L., Cañadas, A., Desportes, G., Donovan, G.P., Gilles, A., Gillespie, D., et al. 2013. Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management. Biological Conservation. 164, 107–122. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/4843 Contact: Lacey, Claire Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description Surveys from seven different vessels were merged. Each vessel contained two sightings platforms running concurrently – primary and tracker. This dataset includes sightings from the tracker platform. Sightings from the primary platform are registered in SCANS II cetacean sightings on primary platform of vessel surveys 2005. Effort or vessel tracks for these surveys are provided with the primary platform dataset. Survey conditions such as sea state, glare, swell, wind are found in the effort data. In the tracker platform, Big-eye binoculars were used. The trackers used to track groups of animals as they came passed the boat and record them accordingly. However, this dataset does not contain such duplicates. Lineage Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, self-propelled boat, surface vessel, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf, EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -11,76; MinLat: 35,95 - MaxLong: 12,62; MaxLat: 62,1 [WGS84] Contributors University of St Andrews; Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), more, data creator Related datasets Publication Based on this dataset Hammond, P.S. et al. (2013). Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management. Biol. Conserv. 164: 107-122. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.04.010, more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Release date: 2018-03-13 Metadatarecord created: 2015-03-23 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
