UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations
Citation
UK Royal Navy. UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations. In: OBIS-SEAMAP . OBIS-SEAMAP, http://seamap.env.duke.edu, 2006-12-07 10:09:57-05, vector digital data. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1994
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
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THe RN often operate in remote areas and it is hoped that by collecting this sort of data the RN may be able to contribute to a better scientific understanding of cetacean distributions/ breeding areas/ migration routese etc. By ensuring that RN personnel keep watch for cetaceans this helps them to comply with current risk mitigation measures. 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, Marine mammals, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -122,43; MinLat: -74,65 - MaxLong: 159,23; MaxLat: 70,33 [WGS84] World Oceans [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
1947 - 2003 Contributor
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO), more, data owner
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2009-05-29
Metadatarecord created: 2009-06-09
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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